提到独生子女，人们总会把他们和“社交能力差、朋友少”联系在一起。许多父母担心独生子女缺少和同龄人的交流，可能会损害他们以后的生活的社交能力。然而，最新研究发现，没有兄弟姐妹的青少年也能克服任何社会交际困难，他们也和同龄人一样有很多朋友。
The Gist: Growing up without siblings doesn't harm social skills.
The Source: "Good for Nothing? Number of Siblings and Friendship Nominations Among Adolescents," by Donna Bobbitt-Zeher and Douglas B. Downey, Ohio State University.
Serial parents may think that each new sibling offers their offspring the gift of companionship. But while we tend to think that si
