Charlotte Alter(@CharlotteAlter):This is a fascinating and under-explored aspect of the fertility crisis. Kids' lives are lonelier and sadder without siblings "Parents in small families have to manufacture, through summer programs and sports leagues and carefully cultivated extracurriculars, the kind of character-forming experiences that large households once provided gratis."

Charlotte Alter

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Journalist, novelist | art history/fertility thriller SEE JANE RUN (July '27) | THE ONE'S WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR (2020) | Humanism @ Substack | formerly @time

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Charlotte Alter@CharlotteAlter

2026.06.29 15:59

This is a fascinating and under-explored aspect of the fertility crisis. Kids' lives are lonelier and sadder without siblings "Parents in small families have to manufacture, through summer programs and sports leagues and carefully cultivated extracurriculars, the kind of character-forming experiences that large households once provided gratis."