From The Blog - Uncategorized

Studies Find Only Children as Well-Adjusted as Those With Siblings

A recent Wall Street Journal podcast and article caught listeners' attention by helping perpetuate an inaccurate only child stereotype, describing their story as "What do to make sure their only children don’t grow up to be selfish and spoiled," as if it's a foregone conclusion that only children grow up to be "selfish and spoiled" unless parents work to ensure otherwise. In the same article, however, one will find the following: "In a meta-analysis covering 115 studies of only children conducted from the 1920s to the 1980s, Toni Falbo, a professor of educational psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, and her co-author, found that only children were generally as well-adjusted, intelligent, accomplished and sociable as those with siblings." This

...Click here to read more »