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ONLY CHILD PAST ISSUE CONTENTS
 Volume 3, Number 1COLLEGE STUDENT SPEAKS OUT: Week after week we receive letters, e-mails, and phone calls from anxious parents who think that their only child will grow up damaged because there are no siblings in the picture. We thought it was about time to hear from only children themselves. Jimmy Duffy, an 18 year old student at Berkeley, has had his share of challenges and met them with grace. His joyful spirit and sensitivity will convince any parent that only children can and do grow up happy and well adjusted. DIVERSITY: IT KEEPS A FAMILY TOGETHER: Psychologist Dr. Carl Pickhardt gives us the third in a series on separation anxiety. Parents and only children have better relationships when they learn that being different actually strengthens relationships. QUALITY NOT QUANTITY: A review of Harriet Fishman Simons' book, Wanting Another Child, an in-depth look at the issues of secondary infertility. HISTORICAL PROFILE: Ada Byron, the only child of British poet Lord Byron, was a gifted mathematician and one of the world's first computer programmers. STAND YOUR GROUND: Dr. Nina Asher helps parents come to terms with setting limits for their children and...sticking to them. |