Happiness and Parenthood: The Link

Recent studies show that parents are happier than those without little ones!

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The other study, from Arizona State University, drew a particularly interesting conclusion after analyzing data from surveys administered in 1972-2008: It’s not so much that parents are happier, but that non-parents are unhappier. By comparison, the parents come out ahead.

This gap in data on happiness from two time periods (1985-1995 and 1995-2008) sparked this idea, and the study’s co-author says that the data isn’t clear on whether parents are happier than non-parents, but certainly that non-parents are getting increasingly unhappy.

So what do you think? Are parents getting happier, are non-parents getting unhappier … or neither?

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