Introduction (Personal Statement)As individuals grow up, encounter encounters, and endure many experiences, they tend to eventually discover a sense of inclusive security in their daily life. By keeping our eyes closed to anything outside of our comfort zone, we often see no reason to think about how different our lives might have been if particular events had not occurred. For example, take a second to meditate on your life now and imagine how different it would have been if you had eradicated or changed something else. These are some of the same thoughts that drifted through the writer's mind as she prepared for this mission. Through it all, she became even more captivated by the idea of ​​how different her life would have been if she had remained an only child in her family. The researcher is an African American student with two younger siblings who will be interviewing a Caribbean American student, an only child. The researcher comes from a huge family made up of a host of aunts, uncles and cousins. His parents told him that during his grandparents' time, having multiple children was a symbol of wealth and added a sense of pride and dignity to the father. The researcher was born to a West African mother and a Sierra Leonean father. In its culture, having several children is considered a mark of blessing and it is very rare to meet people from the same region who have only one child. Growing up in the late 1990s, she was her parents' only child. Yet she was well aware that one day her family of three would become a family of four, or even five. It is conceivable that if he had reached six years old, this would not be a revelation...... middle of the article ...... addressed readers with the question of being an only child while merging both symbolic interaction and social exchange theory. In terms of quality, the interview was slightly more effective than the research, mainly because the latter focused primarily on stereotypes. Individually, these theories provide some reassurance that social interactions and emotional being play a crucial role in human and family development. These theories help to restore value to the two types of research used by showing the variety of responses. This allows readers to see that there is no single answer and that there will always be outliers in the studies performed. Once a clear-eyed understanding of the quality of different types of research is acquired, people will be able to make their own judgments on issues, rather than basing their thoughts solely on one type of evidence..