Confession: in my younger (and dumber) years, I was one of those people who questioned OADs.

I cringe hard when I think back to the couple of times I gave people who were OAD my unsolicited opinion. At the time, I was coming from the perspective of “I know I’m going to wait until I’m older to have kids, so I’m worried about not being able to give my child a sibling and how that might negatively affect them,” but I don’t think I even let the people I was opining to know that. Mind you I had made zero effort to educate myself about the many advantages onlies and parents of onlies have.

These people were all very gracious with me at the time. I just hope I didn’t upset them too much and my stupid comments aren’t still hanging around in their memories.

Am I alone here?