Are you an only child?

[HelpAFattieOutHere]

How is it as an adult?

I'm pretty sure were in the "one and done" camp for various reasons.

I'm not worried about childhood for DS, he has a lot of similarly aged cousins and we're a very close family so he sees them often. We're fine with the fact that when he's older he'd probably benefit from a cousin or friend joining us on holidays etc.

What concerns me is when he's older and he's an only child. What happens when we die and he's left alone? What happens when we're elderly and he feels solely responsible for doddery old parents?

I have siblings but I don't have much of a relationship with them (mainly due to circumstances growing up, we all got as far away from home as possible which meant going in very different directions).

Talk to me about being an adult only child....

Both DH and I are only children and nothing like @EvilMorty has described. That is 100% down to bad parenting!

Neither of us ever wanted brothers or sisters growing up and never questioned our only childness until we had our first child. We're now pregnant with number 2.

Our thinking is that as we've got older it's been far harder when big life things happen. My dad died and my mum has a long term, terminal illness. Doing that alone, with no siblings, has been incredibly tough. DH mum is incredibly emotionally needy and he finds it really hard to take all of that on alone.

It maybe that our kids hate each other but we decided having 2 hopefully have them a support system that we just don't have.