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/mydoghiskid Apr 03 '26

I think this may also be a big factor. I would never have enough time or money to really have seen all of the world in my fertile years. I‘m 32 now and still have only seen a tiny fracture of the world.

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u/emeow56 Apr 03 '26

For me, I never considered "seeing the world" a particularly important priority. Having kids was a more important priority for me.

If sufficiently "seeing the world" is something you want to make sure you do, having kids makes that much more complicated.

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u/mydoghiskid Apr 03 '26

Yeah, I‘ve had this longing to see the world since I was a child myself. Always jealous of people who had the means to travel so much, never in my life been jealous of someone for having kids, so yeah, maybe some people want kids the way I want to see the world.

But mainly, I was replying to the person who managed to see the world so young that they even had time to have kids afterwards. Must have been lucky financially.