Citations:onlyborn

English citations of onlyborn

Adjective: "born as the only child in a family, flock, or the like"

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1986 — G. Hugh Allred, Teenager: A Survival Guide for Mom and Dad, Bookcraft (1986), →ISBN, page 137:
An onlyborn parent who is level has plenty of good qualities: He tends to be self-reliant.
1998 April 4, Jeff Beshoner, “Re: Mary's Perpetual Virginity”, in tnn.religion.catholic‎^[1] (Usenet):
What you would have to prove is that the idea of "onlyborn" had ever been used in scripture. Obviously the "onlyborn" child is also the "firstborn" child.

Noun: "the only child to be born to a parent or family"

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1860 — Frederick William Faber, Spiritual Conferences, Thomas Richardson and Son (1860), page 388:
No fond earthly Mother, rapt in the exclusiveness of an excessive love, ever hung over her firstborn and her onlyborn with a fondness like to that, which the Mother of Jesus will testify to each of the Redeemed.
1973 — Seymour Fisher, The Female Orgasm: Psychology, Physiology, Fantasy, Basic Books (1973), page 37 (footnote):
Kilpatrick and Cauthen (1969) ascertained that female firstborns had less liberal attitudes about sex than lastborns. However, onlyborns and middleborns were very similar in their sexual attitudes, and they were about midway between the other two birth order groups.
1985 — Mazie Earle Wagner, Herman J. P. Schubert, & Daniel S. P. Schubert, "Effects of Sibling Spacing on Intelligence, Interfamilial Relations, Psychosocial Characteristics, and Mental and Physical Health", in Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 19 (ed. Hayne W. Reeses), Academic Press, Inc. (1985), →ISBN, page 197:
They understand that sex differences should be taken for granted until proven otherwise; that an onlyborn may well differ from other firstborns; […]
1986 — G. Hugh Allred, Teenager: A Survival Guide for Mom and Dad, Bookcraft (1986), →ISBN, page 150:
Problems can occur, however — and the problems of being an onlyborn tend to intensify when the parent was an onlyborn, too.
1991 —Michael L. Jaffe, Understanding Parenting, Wm. C. Brown Publishers (1991), →ISBN, page 180:
As onlyborns, they are automatically special and may be raised more permissively than children with siblings.
1992 — Michael Petracca, Captain Zzyzx, J. Odell Editions/Capra Press (1992), →ISBN, page 8:
Although Fay must have been deathly concerned for the well-being of her onlyborn, she somehow managed to inceive a Zenlike detachment, […]
2000 — Ray Simon, Mischief Marketing: How the Rich, Famous & Successful Really Got Their Careers and Businesses Going (and How You Can, Too!), Contemporary Books (2000), →ISBN, page 48:
Firstborns and earlyborns are highly motivated to achieve. Most astronauts, for example, were either firstborns or onlyborns (only children).
2001 — Susan Newman, Parenting an Only Child: The Joys and Challenges of Raising Your One and Only, Broadway Books (2001), →ISBN, page 49:
One of the most extensive studies ever undertaken tracked more than three thousand high school students — half were onlyborns, half had one sibling — for a twenty-year period.