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What Becoming a Parent Really Does to Your Happiness
Having worked so hard to have children, parents may feel it's only natural to expect happiness from the experience. And they'll find happiness of course, but not necessarily continuously, and not always in the forms they might expect.
Jennifer Senior • All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
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“Having parented successfully in the past may rank as a satisfying accomplishment retrospectively; but the bulk of research finds that being a parent, while it is happening, does not increase life satisfaction and may reduce it.”
Jonathan Rauch • The Happiness Curve: Why Life Gets Better After 50
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Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert cites several other studies showing that the happiness of couples declines after the birth of children and does not rise again until their offspring leave home.38
Derek Bok • The Politics of Happiness: What Government Can Learn from the New Research on Well-Being
“Those who look to parenthood as a solution to their discontent will typically find that the rewards, though real, are some years in the future.”
Jonathan Rauch • The Happiness Curve: Why Life Gets Better After 50
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the cut - june 11 - 2024What If Motherhood Isn’t Transformative at All?
We’re often told that becoming a parent will alter one’s identity. For me, the change never came.
By Anastasia Berg, editor of the Point
Art: March Avery, Evening Reading, 1972/© 2024 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Courtesy of the artist, Private Collection, and BLU
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