Is Cindy McCain Really an Only Child?
Posted 9th September 2008 by Susan Newman, Ph.D., tagged only child, only children, politics, election
Her "sister" doesn't think so.
McCain says she is. She's said she's an only child repeatedly in major national interviews. I think she would like to be-especially right now. Her inheritance from father and beer baron, Jim Hensley, would indicate she's an only child, but for the $10,000 left to her half-sister, Kathleen Hensley Portalski, 65. They look remarkably alike.
It seems unfeeling and arrogant to say you are your father’s only child when it is not true, particularly at your father’s funeral when another daughter is present. The New York Times wrote:
“It’s so disappointing, just being pushed aside,” she said. Mrs. Portalski said Mrs. McCain added insult to that injury by referring to herself, in her eulogy for her father, as his only child — while her half-sister sat in a front pew."
Cindy has another half-sister, Dixi Burd,, from her mother's marriage before marrying Hensley.
In a New York Daily News poll 75% of respondents said no, McCain is not an only child. What do you think? Is all the hoopla just about wills and money? Or, is it a question of semantics and how one defines being an only child?
For more on this topic, see: Singletons
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