Many adult only children told me that they wanted their first child to have a sibling precisely because this kind of intensity was too much for them. At the end of their parentsâ lives, only children are sometimes said to be burdened in ways that children with siblings arenât.iven that about one in five American families now have just one child, this seems like a good time to question the misconceptions about only children and the dangers of raising a child without siblings. For one thing, one-child families make obvious sense in a time of diminishing resources.
Definition of kink. 1 : a short tight twist or curl caused by a doubling or winding of something upon itself. 2a : a mental or physical peculiarity : eccentricity, quirkb : whim. 3 : a clever unusual way of doing something. 4 : a cramp in some part of the body.
irk. To trouble the nerves or peace of mind of, especially by repeated vexations: aggravate, annoy, bother, bug, chafe, disturb, exasperate, fret, gall, get, irritate, nettle, peeve, provoke, put out, rile, ruffle, vex. Idioms: get in one's hair, get on one's nerves, get under one's skin.