Are you the only child?

Until I was 13 I was the only child of my family and then I had to take care of my little brother until he reached 7-then my cousin moved to our building and it was easier-now he is more like responsability for his self only.I don`t feel the need to take care of my parents when they get old.i have 12 cousins at all and when my mother broke her leg my oldest cousin took care of her.I know that`s not right but I had to study and finish my education.Almost all of the members of my family live at the same building so I guess I can always count on someone to take care of my parents when I`m busy so I feel free.Happy New Year!Happy MyLotting!Bye!

Yes I am but I am living with my mother only. I do worry sometimes about the future. Another thing that I worry about is leaving my mother alone. She might have a pet by the time I leave but I get a bad feeling when I think about leaving her alone. I most probably wouldn't have this feeling if I had a dad that could spend the time with my mother after I leave. Its not like I would leave forever but I most probably wont be able to live together with her like I used to. :/

Hi regal, my husband has 6 sisters and he is the only son in the family. According to the Chinese tradition here, the grown up son is responsible to take care of his parents. My husband of course has to take good care of his mom especially after all his siblings has married. His dad passed away during his childhood. However after married we still stay together with his mom, for this is the simple and convenient way to take good care of one another. We don’t find any problem to get along with her. Of course, it’s hard to avoid argument occasionally. But everything would get resume as usual again very soon for three of us would settle our misunderstanding and argument peacefully. We don’t hide our feeling in heart and would discuss every difficulty and problem face to face. Nowadays things have changed a lot, both the son and daughter are responsible to take care of their parents. My younger sister and I love our parents very much, and we still take good care of them together with our two brothers even we are married. I notice that in china, there are many families are depended on the only kid, the daughter of them. Yeah, I understand that income is the thing we worry the most, especially the huge expenses in medicine and health care. Anyway as a kid of our beloved parents we still have to take care of them, no wonder how great and difficult the burden is. posting and 2009!

I am not an only child. I have a sister who is two and a hlaf years younger than me. My sister is estranged from my parents though so, as of now, I would be the ones to take care of my parents. My parents are fairly young at 48 and 50 so I feel that I have quite a bit of time before I will have to worry about taking care of them. I figure that when that time comes it will kind of be my duty to take care of them. They took care of me or quite a long time and it's my job to do the same for them. I would hope that my children would do the same for me.

no,I am not the only child in my family,I have a sister who is 3 years younger than me.I really enjoy this,I have someone play with me,sing with me or even fight with me,it is fun and interesting.And we learn to share things and care about each other from daily ilfe.My family is not so rich,but we have a happy life.If I can I want to have more than one child in the future.