Is the one-child family unit a healthy option?
Current lifestyles are redefining family norms and values while dictating newer choices in family type and size such as single parent families, homosexual parent familiesthe list gets updated ahead of family policy and government laws. Families are getting smaller and the only-child option is becoming the order of the day for a variety of reasons like economic restraints, easy manageability, increased infertility, death of a sibling or even the one-child policy legally encouraged in China. Concurrently, Medindias survey found that all those without siblings who participated in the survey were opposed to an only child option. In the US, only three percent of those polled by Gallup last year felt one child is ideal.Though the one-child family unit could place a lesser demand on the earths fast depleting reserves, the voice of the onlies advocating a more-than-one-child family unit needs to be acknowledged in order to promote a world that has an overall better emotional health.
