When it comes to adulthood, it is more often than not every child’s responsibility to take care of their parents at the end of their lives, from health care to the funeral costs. Usually in families with more than one child, the sibling who lives the closest to her elderly parents is the one who takes on the role of caretaker. However, only children are held accountable in a way children with siblings aren’t. Siblings can share the time consuming and sometimes financially tolling obligation to make sure Mom and Dad are comfortable in their closing years. The only child makes the decisions on his own, if not with his spouse by his side for support.