{"id":1842,"date":"2010-08-16T13:29:58","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T18:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/citings\/?p=1842"},"modified":"2010-08-16T13:31:47","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T18:31:47","slug":"only-child-not-necessarily-lonely-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2010\/08\/16\/only-child-not-necessarily-lonely-child\/","title":{"rendered":"Only Child Not Necessarily Lonely Child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A media shout out for some of the great work being presented at the American Sociological Association&#8217;s Annual Meeting right now in Atlanta&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/topic\/la-heb-only-child-20100813,0,601123.story\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Tribune<\/a> reports on a recent study that contradicts the common perception that kids without siblings have worse social skills than their peers from larger families.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The new study questioned students in grades 7 through 12 at more than  100 schools. This time researchers found that only children were  selected as friends by schoolmates just as often as peers with brothers  and sisters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Anyone who didn&#8217;t have that peer  interaction at home with siblings gets a lot of opportunities to develop  social skills as they go through school,&#8221; a co-author of the study,  Donna Bobbitt-Zeher, said in a news release.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A media shout out for some of the great work being presented at the American Sociological Association&#8217;s Annual Meeting right now in Atlanta&#8230; The Chicago Tribune reports on a recent study that contradicts the common perception that kids without siblings have worse social skills than their peers from larger families. The new study questioned students [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39074],"tags":[35,70,2051],"class_list":["post-1842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sightings","tag-children","tag-family","tag-socialization"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1842"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1846,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842\/revisions\/1846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}