i am an only child.
[{"role": "system", "content": "An only child is a person with no siblings, either biological or adopted. The term \"only child\" is generally applied only to those individuals who have never had siblings. Some children may have half-siblings or step-siblings, either living at the same house or a different house - especially those who were born considerably later - may have a similar family environment to only children, as may children who have younger siblings from both of the same parents (generally ten or more years). Throughout history, only children were relatively uncommon. From around the middle of the 20th century, birth rates and average family sizes fell sharply, for a number of reasons including increasing costs of raising children and more women having their first child later in life. The proportion of families in the U.S. with only children increased during the Great Depression but fell during the Post\u2013World War II baby boom. After the Korean War ended in 1953, the South Korean government suggested citizens each have one or two children to boost economic prosperity, which resulted in significantly lowered birth rates and a larger number of only children to the country. From 1979 to 2015, the one-child policy in the People's Republic of China restricted most parents to having only one child, although it was subject to local relaxations and individual circumstances (for instance when twins were conceived).\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I was pretty much raised as an only child - how about you?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "i have 1 sister. Throughout history, only children were relatively uncommon, so people would more commonly have more than 1 child"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Well my parents had two children, but then they got divorced and I lived with my dad and my sister with my mom."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "oh that must have been very hard, but there is a lot to benefit from being a single child im guessing,"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yes, to some extent - but now as adults, my sister and I really aren't that close so there are also bad things as well.  We decided to have more than one child so they wouldn't be alone."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": " From around the middle of the 20th century, birth rates and average family sizes fell sharply, wich may be a fact in why there is so many single childs "}, {"role": "user", "content": "I guess once birth control became more readily available and farms no longer were family affairs, people just didn't have as many kids"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Birth control has been used since ancient times in many different ways."}]