The only child: how is quarantine affecting kids without siblings?

With playdates cancelled and school now virtual, only children experiencing isolation at a formative time – but how they cope depends on their personality

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If you believe the negative stereotypes, only children are innately insular and maladjusted. If you believe the science, practically no developmental differences exist between only children and kids used to squalling with siblings. But when it comes to how only children are weathering social isolation during the Covid-19 pandemic, it’s hard to know what to believe.

Are self-sufficient only children unusually capable of hunkering down with their own company for months or, with playdates cancelled and school on hiatus, is one really the loneliest number, after all? 

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