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Childless adults are generally just as happy as parents

26 November 2015

And just to be clear, having a kid isn't worse for you than unemployment or losing a spouse, even though that's what the new study found. Nick Powdthavee, a happiness researcher at the London School of Economics and the University of Melbourne, notes that the average change in well-being reported in the paper ''was derived from a raw data that 70 percent of people reported a drop in life satisfaction following having a child''.

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Think having children will make you happy?, Nattavudh Powdthavee, The Psychologist, Volume 22, April 2009

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Wellbeing Programme webpage

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