Tuesday, July 13, 2010
From the WSJ:
It's…true that modern parents are less happy than
their childless counterparts. But happiness researchers rarely emphasize how
small the happiness gap is. Suppose you take the
A closer look at the General Social Survey also reveals that child No. 1 does almost all the damage. Otherwise identical people with one child instead of none are 5.6 percentage points less likely to be very happy. Beyond that, additional children are almost a happiness free lunch. Each child after the first reduces your probability of being very happy by a mere .6 percentage points.
Read more here.