
Just one child
“Do you have just one child?” a question I am constantly asked. “Yes just one child”, followed by my standard response. Until I started to think about the word “just”. Not having one child, but the “just one” child as if it was less than the norm of what is expected. I know this question doesn’t come with any bad intention from the one asking it, and just carries a curiosity as to whether my son has siblings, but just occasionally you feel as if it comes with judgement on m