#only children

[last-pages]

only children when they can't define themselves at all because they are the weight-bearing oldest. they are the rebellious middles. the are the attention seeking, loveable youngest. all at once!!

#idk how to tag this #only child #only children #i love you guys <33 #family

[girlwithlandscape]

“It is doubtful if any only child is to be envied, for the only child is bound to become introspective. Having no one of its own ilk in which to confide, it is apt to confide in itself.”

— Radclyffe Hall, “The Well of Loneliness”

#radclyffe hall #the well of loneliness #quote #only children #relatable content #loneliness #isolation

[fallen-stars-and-moons]

My therapist told me that it might be good to distance myself from my parents for a bit.

BRO. I’m an only child, so who the actual fuck am I left with then??? 

I AM the thirth parent

#only children #only child #disfunctional family #mental health

[joey-the-boy]

only children are so weird like wdym you've never had a knife pulled on you? grow up dude

#siblings #only child #only children #tw knife #tw knife mention #knife mention

[fantasmalresplendent]

#poll #personality #only children #siblings

[veritas-dolos]

this poll is made by an only child!! and please be kind to those in the comments/tags 💙

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[strawberry-yougurt]

I've had enough of this

older siblings, middle sibling, youngest sibling, only children. All the gosh darn same. Mad that you have a stereotype pinned on your head because of your rank as a sibling? It is not your fault that your parents decided to do the horizontal tango. It is not your fault if you get spoiled as a only child or youngest sibling. It is not your fault if you get given all the responsibilities as an oldest sibling. It is not your fault if you get over looked as a middle child. THEY ARE C H I L D R E N . Why are we joking about how they are in their family?

#siblings #yogurt says #only children #srry ranted

[flochart]

Being an only child is getting given endless things to entertain you and then getting told off when you don’t pay any attention to your parents because you’re using the things they bought you :/

#onlychild #only child #only children #because honestly #this is me

[aquila1nz]

Only Children on Motherland: Fort Salem

The most unbelievable part of Motherland: Fort Salem is that all three of the Bellwether Unit are only children. Or more correctly, since it's possible to make arguments for why these particular individuals are only children, why it's unremarked on and unremarkable within the show that they are only children. We know the army need witches, they don't have enough and they burn through them too fast. It makes sense that they've come up against modern decreases in birthrate. A decrease in deaths from childhood illnesses and general increased life expectancy, removal of child labour, increasing costs of educating children and individual wealth replacing support by children late in life, combined with reliable, available birth control has brought birthrates down rapidly in our world. But there are exceptions to that: recent immigrants from places where those things aren't the case, groups with high death rates and fear of disappearing (such as indigenous peoples) the very rich and certain religious groups may maintain high birthrates within lower birthrate societies. I would expect some of these things to effect witch societies. Starting with Abigail: the High Atlantics are literally running a breeding programme on themselves; it makes no sense that they wouldn't be having large families, you cannot tell if a trait has bred true with just one offspring. High Atlantics are also very well off so they can afford the kids - I would guess that the early HA families parleyed their military successes into investment in land, and they now use some of their "at home" men to manage their investments, in such a way that the money goes back into the families, not to individual men - there will be very specific laws around HA family property and marriages, possibly with large dowries on the men, to keep everything within their system, bu that's going off topic. So if they aren't producing large families, and we don't see any recent large families - Abigail's cousin also seems to be an only children, Petra is one of two? Or maybe there are unmentioned brothers? We aren't seeing lots of siblings and cousins and large family age gaps among the students, so something else must be preventing them from optimising family size. Has in- and line breeding for magic traits reduced their fertility? Is the way young women are trained and deployed keeping them from having more than a couple of kids? I feel like the army will have systems in place for women to have children, leave them with the men to raise and head back to the front. Has the number of military witches dying increased so much in the last generation that the birthrate hasn't kept up?

Raelle is at the other end of the army scale, the armies bread and butter, providing canon fodder not officers, families who don't have the resources that the HA have, instead they know their daughters will have to serve no matter what,and rely on the money from their army salaries and the hope that they will advance within the army, maybe marry well, and their children will have more options. Less concerned with bloodlines I'm guessing there's more kids like Raelle with outside fathers, though not all will be openly so, young witches who get pregnant by a non witch may still be married off to a nice witch boy, other mixed kids will be the result of affairs, or illicit relationships that are passed off as good witchblood Beltane outcomes and the like. It seems Willa was punished for marrying out by extra deployments. I'd still expect there to be a reasonable birthrate among the lower witch classes, but I can see how the disenchanted Willa just had the one kid.

So we have Abigail, most likely for her only child status to be commented on, and Raelle, a more likely anomaly, I posit that Tally could only be an only child, unless a brother had been born first. May Craven whose sisters died before she came of age, raised on a matrilocal compound, or choosing to move to one after their deaths can only have one daughter if she wants her dispensation to pass onwards to that daughter. She'll not risk having two and losing one or both to the military.

I can accept that these three characters are only children, and at Fort Salem they find each other as sisters. But that no one on the show comments on their only child statuses, that we aren't seeing how larger families are still something of the norm as a result of the witches precarious mix of power and otherness, that's weird.

#motherland fort salem #meta #abigail bellweather #raelle collar #tally craven #matriarchy #only children #my posts

[housewifediary]

I always feel like I'm the minority within the minority group of parents raising only children; because for a lot of people it seems they chose this path to be less of a burden to the environment, loving their careers, don't enjoy motherhood; etc.

Well I'm here to say I absolutely LOVE motherhood even if we have just the one, I am happy home.

For a very long time we were one and done despite having an easy pregnancy and birth, because we thought of our child being our priority it doesn't matter the size of the burden etc. that all being said I now hope to continue being a mom to more than just the one, but this was after nearly a decade of thinking and coming to the realization to even just be open for more. This was after our only became so independent, we own a more than large enough home and husband is settled in a successful career. things we weren't sure of back then.

#only child #only children #family #tradfem #mumblr #sahm #traditional femininity #housewife #girl mom #ttc #oad

[summer-fruits-and-cream]

people with siblings when people make comments about birth order: oh haha. yeah that's true. maybe I don't agree with this other part but that's a funny post :)

only children when people make comments about only children: how dare you generalize an entire group of people. this post is offensive

#birth order #only children #my post

[mensfrightsactivist]

also it is funny that every time only children are brought up people get all high and mighty. like “hahaha yes only children getting the hate they deserve!!!” as if y’all aren’t hating on us constantly anyway. like sorry we grew up fucking lonely and didn’t have a reason to learn all the obviously vital lessons you did. at least i didn’t have to play knife chase

#only children #like yeah i get it we come with our own issues around sharing and alone time and all that #but at least we don’t have a tendency to pick on people because we got picked on by our siblings #i had to learn a BUNCH of shit in adulthood when i started sharing my spaces #and it didn’t always go well. but i did learn #and i did it without being gaslit into believing i was adopted

[rivetgoth]

It's honestly crazy that discussion around testosterone HRT skews so much towards the beginning stages of it (to the point that you have dozens of guys thinking their transition is "failed" if they don't pass by like a year in lol) and what the initial changes of the first couple of months to years look like, like the classic laundry list of those early basic changes like bottom growth, voice drop, etc, when IMO literally none of that compares remotely to the depth and intensity of the long term total masculinization you start to experience like 3-5+ years in.

#also has made it increasingly difficult to relate to those early into their transition honestly #like not in a bitter way it’s just like hard to express how diff the experience is #of being like a year on T vs 5 😭 #ETA I muted this post ages ago now but fwiw seeing transphobes pop up in the notes on occasion just to say cruel reactionary shit #you are clowns I cannot imagine seeing a post that is ONLY about discussing with folks about the reality of a medication #and choosing to make that your moment to get a schoolyard bully jab in about how you find it gross or something. #you are less well adjusted than must children. may the universe be kinder to you than you are to others.

[lastoneout]

As long as we're talking about weird sibling texts y'all gotta see this completely unprompted banger my sister sent me the other day.

#only children are missing out on the joy of incomprehensible sibling communication

[redtail-lol]

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[caregivervent]

Being an only child and caregiver to your parents

With my parents before my father moved into a memory care center. The Wall Street Journal published an article recently about the beginning of an only child boom and its impact on caregiving. As an only child, I could relate all too well to the main subject of the article. I felt overwhelmed many times during my caregiving journey, and felt the crushing weight of making life or death medical…

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