Under her pen the story in which Confucius tells a student who complains of having no siblings, "if you are a gentleman, all men within the four seas are your brothers," becomes a parable about learning to let go of regrets before they destroy you.
Stunting was 4% among children having no siblings that significantly increased to 12% among children having > 3 siblings (P < 0.001).
Some of the environmental risk factors for JIA are similar to those described for respiratory allergies (i.e., allergic rhinitis, atopic asthma), e.g. maternal smoking during pregnancy [ 5], having no siblings, having more affluent parents, living in Northern Europe [ 6- 8].
For instance, there was one subsample (ESP_V) consisting of siblings with ADHD-CT only, two sub-samples (BEL_G and ISR_J) containing no siblings with ADHD-HT, and one sample (GER_G) having no siblings with ADHD-IT (Table S1 and Figure S3 in Additional files 3 and 4).
At 24 months, risk factors for LRS were male gender, allergy, daycare attendance, exposure to pre and postnatal tobacco smoke, maternal atopy, having a single mother, eczema, respiratory tract infections, URS, having no siblings, non-exposure to pre and postnatal pets, no breastfeeding at 6 months.
All children 0 18 years of age were assigned 0 3 siblings according to available demographic data of Sweden for the year 2006 [ 18]; 19% had no siblings, 49% had one sibling, 23% had two siblings, whereas 10% of the children had three siblings or more.
Rogers had no siblings, and had lost both his parents to illness in 2000.
As single children, they have no siblings to lighten the load.
