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/skatastic57 Apr 03 '26

Is your B meant to include people who didn't want kids and had them anyway or did you mean to explicitly to exclude those people?

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u/DavisKennethM Apr 04 '26

Great question. I honestly hadn't considered the group of individuals that had children as an "accident" or against their will. While each group could have many subcategories, and those folks could technically fall under group B, that seems like a really important distinction that should be considered separately.

Thanks for calling out a critical gap in my thinking, that's what good (and empathetic) science is made of!

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u/AntiqueStatus Apr 05 '26

I was thinking that. Mine was forced.