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What Becoming a Parent Really Does to Your Happiness
Each kid is so completely different, that the experience of parenting might not even be comparable. Some come out as hassle-free angels, and others are continuous storms. It’s almost like Russian Roulette, you have a 1 in 6 chance in either direction.
Our culture is really doing a ten out of ten job in caring in the worst possible ways. There is no infrastructure to support parents of caregivers, so care makes you poor and exhausts you. (Solution: Pay caregivers! Universal and affordable childcare and eldercare!) Parenting has become more instrumental than it used to be: kids are a project, anot... See more
Anne Helen Petersen • "I Went Into Motherhood Determined Not to Lose Myself in It."
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
