Seeing children with multiple siblings with less than 8 year difference between them vs single children is shocking just how differently kids are treated.
This is the most accurate but least factual description of what it looks like from the outside when a family keeps adding kids as fast as they can https://malcolminthemiddle.fandom.com/wiki/Flashback
Do you think all of the latchkey lone children of the current generation are the most psychologically healthy individuals the world has seen? Do you think they're the most loved or coddled? The most educated? Your anecdote is actually kind of hilarious in context.
The idea that 2 children splits the love or attention is absolutely insane.
https://www.census.gov/newsroom/stories/siblings.html
80% of kids under 18 have siblings in the USA today.
>The idea that 2 children splits the love is absolutely insane.
It's also what's blindingly obvious when you spend more than 5 minutes in a playground with single kids and multiple kids.
A parent can snuggle multiple kids at once, read to multiple kids at once, take multiple kids to the zoo at once, etc.
Moreover siblings have their own rich relationships.
Having closely spaced siblings is pretty normal.
And in the year of our lord 2025 it's normal not to have kids in the west.
In most of the rest of the world neither of those things were normal.
Which is the point.
The west is weird when it comes to raising children and has been uniquely bad at it for over 80 years which happens to be living memory for pretty much everyone on here.
Parents can spend time with their children as a group. Parents with lots of kids have the kids do the chores.
Your issue here is that you have labeled the single kids life as good and the multi sibling family as bad .
It used to be the opposite. People would pity a single child.
