Benefits to having only one child

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What are the pros to having onlies?

Please not this again.

There’s an entire section on this, OP. This question comes up all the time. Anyway, surely the benefits are obvious?

So there is! Sorry, I didn't realise

The obvious pro is financial. Time, attention and energy can be split easily enough between two that I don't see it as a pro to just having one. That's all I can think of.

I'd never have an only by choice, speaking as one myself. It was fine as a child, but is terrible as an adult.

See this is why threads about the number of children are pointless.

I’m sorry it is terrible for you as an adult but plenty of people have their lives ruined by their siblings, or just don’t see their siblings or get any help from their siblings with elderly parents, etc, due to a range of things like different personalities, moves abroad, mental or physical health and so on.

Please OP, decide for yourself how many kids you want. The possible pros and cons are fairly obviously and you don’t know which will apply to your child.

I don’t think having multiple children guarantees your children - a childhood friend, a source of support when older and so on

And I’ll stop reading posts about number of children 🤣

And your AIBU is?