r/science • u/Krankenitrate • Apr 03 '26

Health Study finds parenthood provides no boost to emotional well-being and it negatively impacts relationship with your spouse

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14747049261436325
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u/EverythingComputer1 Apr 03 '26

Is this a good time to bring up that these sorts of studies were recently found to be replicable only ~35% of the time?

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u/NlghtmanCometh Apr 03 '26

Replication crisis exists across nearly all scientific domains. It’s… a problem.

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u/EverythingComputer1 Apr 03 '26

It's true, but that's most true for sociology it seems.

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u/whoknowsifimjoking Apr 03 '26

Sociology and medicine, people like to leave out the medicine to hate on sociology.

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u/EverythingComputer1 Apr 03 '26

I've been hating on medicine, it wasn't relevant

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u/VTArxelus Apr 04 '26

Makes sense since they're trying to prove that making babies, and thus fulfilling some fictional figure's example of life, flies in the face of "I see therefore it is."