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.
Definition of balk. 1  transitive verb. 2  1 archaic : to pass over or by â¦ such an age as ours balks no expense â¦ â William Cowper. 3  2 : to check or stop by or as if by an obstacle : block â¦ had neither been balked nor been frightened â¦ â Francis Hackett. 4  intransitive verb.