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selylindi comments on Parenting and Happiness - Less Wrong Discussion

20 Post author: jkaufman 03 October 2012 01:43PM

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Comment author: selylindi 03 October 2012 05:03:34PM 10 points [-]

I'm tempted to send the "with controls" graphs to the newspaper and suggest the headline: HAPPINESS CAUSES CHILDREN.

Comment author: IlyaShpitser 03 October 2012 05:25:18PM 17 points [-]

That's not that strange, if you think about it.

Comment author: jkaufman 03 October 2012 05:25:57PM 6 points [-]

Another possibility is that people tend to have kids 1-3 years after getting married and the happiness bump we're seeing is mostly that people really like the first few years of marriage. Not sure how to interpret the (differently shaped) happiness bumps in the "unmarried" case, though.