It's the ultimate arrogance - and maybe the ultimate stupidity - to have and raise a child who will be just like you.

I have never thought of it quite that way, but I guess there must be some instinct within most parents which alines that. We do strive to raise a better version of ourselves, but it doesn't always come out in a healthy way; thinking of those parents who live vicariously through their children.

I am, avowedly, an advocate of one child families.

I certainly have to respect the ideal of that, although never by enforced means after seeing how that worked out in China. They may have been onto something, but I wonder if they foresaw the preference for boys leading to such an imbalance of the population.

I have sometimes wondered if there would have been less emotional turmoil raising just one, but I also don't think I could have not given my first a sibling. I dread to think how my life would have been without my own sister.

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