The Onlies Are Not So Lonely

     Being an only child seems to be an attractive life. Even though the only child may feel lonely not having a brother or a sister, he enjoys many advantages. Not having siblings around you means that your parents are going to give you all the charming and things they can, as Forer says on her description of birth order. All that benefits are harder to see in the first or middle child, who are often in a competition for their parents' attention.  I can relate of this because of my position as a first child...