No brothers or sisters? That doesn’t mean you’ll grow up spoiled and lonely | Emma Beddington

Other research has shown that only children are not more narcissistic, report less loneliness and are as happy as or happier than those with siblings. Have those findings shifted our prejudices? Nope. Speaking to New Scientist, Toni Falbo, a professor of educational psychology and long-time researcher into only children, said that her many years of reporting no difference or slight advantages for only children had “not done much at all to improve the stereotype”.