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They’re selfish, spoiled, and can’t share. Are these assumptions about only children true? In Politiken’s series on siblings, we explore the lives of those who grow up without them.

Professor debunks the myth of the selfish, spoiled only child

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When Lene Bjørn was a child, it was common to have many siblings.

She actually remembers only meeting one other only child during her upbringing in a provincial town in central Jutland in the 1950s.

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