A child with no siblings, either biological or adopted. Despite years of research, large amounts of data and opposing theories, there is little evidence to suggest that only children are maladjusted.

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Luther, according to the scandal of his monkish enemies, was a brat of that hellish breed; nor was Pearl the only child to whom this inauspicious origin was assigned among the New England Puritans.

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They devoured my little daughter, my child, my only child! I have no longer any heart, they devoured it!"

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At the only child seat checkup Alexandria held in 1997, they checked 71 restraints.

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"It's very difficult for children to be the only child of color in a class," Griffin points out.

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