Extract from David R. Shaffer, 1995. Developmental Psychology: Childhood and Adolescence. 4th Edition. Brooks/Cole Pub Co relative to my project (this book is reference only and this is the last day of the college term so I have to get this information now!):
"Are "only" children who grow up without siblings the spoiled, selfish, overindulged brats that people often presume them to be? Hardly! Two major reviews of hundreds of pertinent studies found that only children are (1) relatively high, on average, in self-esteem and achievement motivation, (2) more obedient and slightly more intellectually competent than children with siblings, and (3) likely to establish good relations with peers (Falbo, 1992; Falbo & Polit, 1986). Since only children enjoy an exclusive relationship with their parents, they may receive more quality time from parents and more direct achievement training than children with siblings do, perhaps explaining their tendency to be relatively friendly, well-behaved, and instrumentally competent (Baskett, 1985). Moreover, these singletons have no younger sibs that they can bully, and, like later0bnorns, they may soon learn that they must negotiate and be accommodating if they hope to play successfully with peer playmates, most of whom are probably at least as powerful as they are."
"In 1979, the People's Republic of China implemented a one-child family policy in an attempt to control its burgeoning population... there is no evidence that China's one-child policy has produced..."little emperors". Only children in China closely resemble only children in Western countries (Falbo & Posten, 1993)"
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