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r/GlassChildren↗

This is a community meant for people who have siblings who take up a disproportionate amount of their parents time and energy. Whether this is because they have a disability, a terminal illness, drug related issues, behavior issues or any other type of time consuming 'issue'.

9.2k subscribers88 posts / mo in Sep 202673 authors / mosince 2021

r/GlassChildren has 9.2k members (+99% over the last 12 months). It gets about 88 posts a month from 73 people. Top topics: Mental Health & Self Improvement, Pain and Poetry and Parenting Issues.

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How r/GlassChildren has grown

r/GlassChildren

Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+99%in 12 months · +8.1% in 3 months · +2.0% in 1 month
Oct 20269.2k
Growing9.2k subscribers
  • no data — drawn from 0 at creation (May 2021)
Live · through Oct 2026
r/GlassChildren

Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

−15%vs Sep 2025 · +1.2% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 202688
QuieterPeaked at 167 in Jul 2025
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/GlassChildren

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Mental Health & Self Improvement0.2%
  2. Pain and Poetry0.2%
  3. Parenting Issues0.1%
  4. Moms0.1%
  5. Glass Pieces & Blowing0.1%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. Spotify
  2. ScienceDirect
  3. OpenCounseling

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Posts and activity for Sep 2026. Members from Reddit's subscriber counts. Read from the same data the app runs on. Our research