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Show Being "Only Child" Frequently Handicap to Success in Life's Struggle By WILLIAM PAUL CARTER, University of Chicago. j The "only child" is often seriously handicapped through misguided home influences, lack of contact with other children and a generally spoiled disposition which later education and the rough edges of the world must correct. At home the only child is made to feel that he is most important, and he becomes conceited and ambitious. But his playmates do not accept ac-cept the valuation of his parents and with typical childish frankness they make the fact evident. The reactions are varied but harmful. Some are utile to "remake" themselves later and become social creatures. Others never quite adjust themselves in the world of men. The only child is accustomed to get what he wants at home, because i hi? wish is law, but he is placed in a disadvantageous position to attain I his wishes when forced into the world, because lie has not learned to "give ! and take." His temperament is not right, he concludes, and he does not understand and fraternize readily with his fellow beings |