I generally hear such philosophies from people who don't belong to this category of being single child. For them being single is like some great great thing. Try putting yourself in following situations i'm going to scribble below..
- You are experiencing an emotional breakdown, its 3 in the morning, do you expect to trouble your parents every time for small small issues of life.
- You and your mom-dad don't agree on some demand of yours, and you have nobody to back you.
- You get an over protective care from them, and its start getting irritating after some time.
- Very often you tend to be the total focus of attention of parents, especially non-working mothers. Child space and independence goes zero.
- Most of the time our parents are correct, but sometimes the generation gap do jumps in, and you alone cannot make them understand it.
- You just had a terrible fight with them, at least there should be someone to tell you who was correct.
- You just fell in love with a beautiful girl in college...
- And in my case, whom to tell when i get a new crush every month or two..
- You want to play double player games.
- You want to abuse someone, knowing that you would get abused in return without any harm feelings.
- You need someone to tell, the shirt you wearing isn't looking good on you.
- You need someone to fight with.
- You generally get over-depended for small small things.
I agree the positive points for being single kid must be equally strong, may be it so !! As the grass always looks greener on the other side of the fence. But still i personally feel being a single sibling isn't good for me at all..