"Oh,you must have been a spoiled kid.You must be really bossy.I wonder what you're going to be like to deal with?" That's often the response Angela Hult gets when people find out she's an only child,she told ABC News.Despite such negative remarks,Hult has decided to have only one child herself.And she's not alone. 

According to the US' Office for National Statistics,women approaching the end of their childbearing years had an average of 1.9 children in 2004,compared with 3.1 for their counterparts in 1976.The percentage of onechild families in Britain had risen from 18 percent in 1972 to 26 percent in 2007. 

But even though only children are becoming increasingly common,the traditional view that they're selfish,spoiled and lack social skills holds strong.Even parents of only children,like Hult,are made to feel guilty about having only one child.Worried that they're being selfish and endangering their child's future,they flock to online discussion forums seeking advice.Soon,however,they ask themselves:is this social prejudice really reasonable? 

"There have been hundreds and hundreds of research studies that show that only children are no different from their peers ," Susan Newman,a social psychologist at Rutgers University in the US,told ABC News. 

This raises another question:why are only children still viewed with such suspicion? 

"There is a belief that's been around probably since humans first existed that to have just one child is somehow dangerous,both for you and for the continuation of your race," Toni Falbo,a professor of educational psychology,told the Guardian."In the past a lot of children died.You'd have had to be crazy to only have one." 

Times,of course,have changed and infant mortality has largely reduced.So what do only children themselves say? 

Kayley Kravitz,a blogger for The Huffington Post,grew up as an only child and highly recommends the experience."Being an only child taught me the most valuable skill of all:the ability to be alone," she said. QUESTIONS:

Q1:
1. Where did statistics on women come from?
2. What bureau had statistics regarding women?
3. What was the source for statistics on women?
Q2:
1. Did Angela Hult grow up without siblings?
2. Is Angela Hult someone that doesn't have siblings?
3. Was Angela Hult the sole child in her family?
Q3:
1. Do people say Angela Hult must be spoiled?
2. Is Angela Hult told that she is spoiled?
3. Do others say to Angela Hult that she is spoiled?
Q4:
1. How many kids is Angela Hult having?
2. How many children does Angela Hult plan on giving birth to?
3. What's the number of children that Angela Hult is having?
Q5:
1. Does Angela Hult feel guilty about having just one kid?
2. Does it make Angela Hult feel guilty to just have one child?
3. Does having only one child make Angela Hult feel bad?
Q6:
1. Why isn't Angela Hult ashamed to have an only child?
2. Why doesn't it make Angela Hult feel guilty to have just one kid?
3. Why doesn't Angela Hult have a problem with having only one child?
Q7:
1. What is the number of British families with just one child?
2. How many British families have only children?
3. How many of Britain's families have only a single child?
Q8:
1. Have households with only children gone up or down since the 70s?
2. Has there been an increase or decrease in only children since the 1970s?
3. Has Britain seen an increase or a decrease in single child homes since the 70s?
Q9:
1. What has increased since the 70s?
2. What has there been a rise in since the 70s?
3. What does Britain have more of than it did in the 1970s?
Q10:
1. What percent increase has Britain seen in single child homes?
2. Only children have increased by what percent in Britain?
3. By what percent have only children gone up in Great Britain?
