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Two-child and one-child families, how much difference

After 30 years, you will understand

By Sal ToriPublished 3 years ago 5 min read

In the past two years, with the opening of the two-child policy and the three-child policy, many families are considering whether to have a second child. For young parents after 90, the age is not too old, they think they can still struggle for a few years before considering this issue. The post-80s parents, most of them choose not to consider it. Because life is stressful, work is busy, and their health is getting worse, they don't have the energy to raise a second child.

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If the family has two children, they take care of each other and are not particularly lonely. Children from only-child families have a hard time getting in touch with other friends before they go to school, and even after they go to school it's just friendship among classmates, which is not comparable to affection.

The family has two children, and the children grew up together, even if the occasional quarrel in the twinkling of an eye, after growing up, the feelings are particularly good, everything to help each other.

Which is better for a two-child family than a one-child family? There are advantages and disadvantages of

1, the parents of the second child pressure.

The older generation will say that the birth of a child is also raised, the birth of two children together to take care of the big. The words are so, only those who have experienced it can appreciate how tired they are to have two children, and many second-born mothers say they can only choose to be at home full-time with their children after giving birth to their second child.

Every day is the sound of two children bickering and crying, to reason with the children, but also to let them help each other love, the old mother will simply be depressed.

The mother has to take care of the baby at home, but also wash clothes, cooking, do housework, have a lot of tired, every day eat badly, sleep badly, and is better to go out to a class to relax.

Nowadays, having an extra child is not as simple as it was when we were kids, it's just an extra pair of chopsticks and a bowl. There is a lot of pressure on the child to go to school, get a job, and get married. If you have two sons, the pressure on your parents will be even greater.

If you want to have a second child, you must first consider whether you are healthy, whether you are financially able to do so, and whether both elderly people can help with the baby. These comprehensive conditions meet the standard, to ensure that the child is born, there is a good growing environment, and the birth of a second child is not as simple as imagined.

2, only child's childhood happiness, but lonely.

The children of only-child families can enjoy the love of their mothers and fathers, as well as the elderly on both sides during their childhood, and the material conditions are also very abundant, making their childhood very happy. Families with many siblings will naturally have poorer material conditions. When we were young, the material conditions of students in the class from only-child families were particularly good, eating snacks we had never seen before, and wearing very beautiful clothes.

The family has only one child, spending money does not have to think about, because the parents will try to meet the child's requirements like we have more children in the family is not the same. When shopping to buy a piece of clothing have to hesitate for a long time, because we know the material conditions of our own families in general.

A friend's daughter has gone to college, and every time the mother and daughter two people video, the daughter will say: Mom you turn the camera around, I want to look at Mimi. This is a kitten that the child had in high school, the name is Mimi.

The friend said, because there is only such a child in the family, growing up especially lonely, she would like to find a playmate. Friends in the daughter's strong request, she bought her back this kitten, daughter went to college, the most missed is Mimi. The friend said that she could see that the children were too lonely.

Years later, after the only child has a family, their material conditions are superior to ours, because parents will wholeheartedly help this one child, not only to buy them a house to buy a car but also to help bring up grandchildren. The good conditions will also give the children to take a lot of pocket money, the children of the family are not the same, parents for two children to go to school, for the children to arrange for marriage, material, and only child family is not at all comparable.

3, 30 years later, the second child and the only child family, the difference is big.

But 30 years later, the only child will see the disadvantage, the only daughter may want to marry far away, which is a difficult thing. As parents will also oppose, it because they feel that they only have one child, and the degree of dependence on the child is also very serious so the only child will also lose a lot of freedom.

The only child has no biological siblings to help him or her in trouble, so he or she can only rely on himself or herself to do whatever he or she wants to do, and the parents are getting older every day. If the elderly are not well and need care, the only child will be too busy. Some only children work and take care of their parents at the same time and simply don't have that much energy.

I often see only-child families where the elderly are sick, the son is in the hospital waiting for his parents, and the daughter-in-law is at home taking care of the baby, so the two of them are very tired. This time the elderly will lament that it is better to have a family with many children, the children can take turns taking care of their parents.

For families with many children, siblings can take turns taking care of their parents when they are sick and hospitalized. When there is a problem, the family can sit down to discuss and find a solution together.

The parents of the second child are first bitter and then sweet. When the children are small, they suffer and work hard for most of their lives, and support their children to start a family. When they are older, they are particularly lively when it comes to New Year's Day, when the whole family sits around and eats and chats together, very warm. Once the old man has something to do, the children are around and will have a happy old age.

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About the Creator

Sal Tori

Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything one has learned in school.

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