For an only child from the city, supervised and scrutinized, it was unheard-of freedom.
As a result, many households put their hopes, dreams and fears behind their only child.
The burden falls on the only child or the one willing to take responsibility.
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Rosenthal, 63, is the only child of a Bronx postal worker and a biology teacher.
The only child of Italian-American parents, Ray Dalio was born in Jackson Heights, Queens, in 1949.
It offers a vivid portrait of Ruskin as the precocious only child of a self-made wine merchant.
My one living daughter is somehow a little sister, a big sister and yet an only child.
She was an only child, the first on either side of her family to go to college.
Lott was an only child and, like Clinton, was treated as an adult from an early age.
The Shenzhen Special Zone Daily says she is an only child with a penchant for making patriotic speeches.
One couple said their only child was taken away by mistake while they were working in another city.
Davis, knowing this uncertainty, may have planned for some of his assets to pass to his only child, Mark.
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She told me that she grew up an only child in Gratiot, Ohio, a town of just 250 people.
There, too, she buried her only child, a troubled daughter who had died giving birth to a stillborn son.
The only child of India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi was herself elected prime minister in 1966.
It was unclear whether the baby, who neighbors said was an only child, had any mental or physical problems.
Her 86-year-old mother, for whom she's responsible as an only child, lives nearby.
Arianda grew up an only child in a stimulating, optimistic, and tight-knit family.
Mr Rana, an only child from Lahore in Pakistan, has had no contact with his parents since he left.
Yauch was the oldest of the Beastie Boys, an only child who grew up in Brooklyn Heights, according to Current Biography magazine.
Ahmer, an only child from Lahore, left Pakistan when he was 14 after his parents feared the family's lives were in danger.
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Louis was the only child of Thomas and Maggie Stevenson of Edinburgh.
Not to be daunted, and plainly unfazed by the threat of both sharks and sentimentality, Marlin sets off to rescue his only child.
Chinese parents who can afford it want their only child to have a multilingual education so that they can compete in the global economy.
A., a physician, said they felt that was the best way to ensure that their only child continued to enjoy what she was doing.
When John started preschool, Ms. Rudnicki says she got "deer-in-headlights looks" from other parents and teachers because her son was the only child with allergies.
Marshall, Astor's only child, was indicted on criminal charges in 2006.
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Scalia was born in Trenton, New Jersey, an only child who went on to have nine children of his own with his wife, Maureen McCarthy.
Cherrie, an only child, would soon be celebrating her 33rd birthday, but in the minds of many, she will always remain a missing girl.
Gabor's only child, the result of her marriage to Conrad Hilton, will also get weekly visits with her mother without von Anhalt present, the judge said.
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