jkaufman comments on Happiness and Children - Less Wrong

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Comment author: jkaufman 27 June 2014 08:31:12PM *  16 points [-]

I looked into this a couple years ago and wrote up what I found:

Summary: the research isn't that good, is all correlational, and how parenting affects your happiness varies widely by demographics (age, gender, income). Neither a simple "parenting makes people happy" nor a "parenting makes people miserable" are justified.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/erj/parenting_and_happiness/