What Becoming a #Parent Really Does to Your #Happiness
source: https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/11/does-having-kids-make-you-happy/620576/
In one study, the psychologist Daniel Kahneman and his colleagues asked about 900 employed #women to report, at the end of each day, every one of their activities and how #happy they were when they did them. They recalled being with their children as less enjoyable than many other activities, such as watching TV, shopping, or preparing food. Other studies find that when a child is born, parents experience a decrease in happiness that doesn’t go away for a long time, in addition to a drop in marital #satisfaction that doesn’t usually recover until the #children leave the house.
