Should I have kids?
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Is It a Good Idea to Stop Having Children?
There's good psychological evidence for a number of traits that characterize most people. One of these is known as an imism bias, or a apolyanism. Have got a programme coming out in a few weeks about whether it's better to be an optimist or a pessimist. So listen out for that. And there's evidence with us. For example, if you ask people to recall past pleasurable and positive experiences, what you find is that the recall rate differs for those two. Similarly, when people make projections about the future, where will you be in ten years me or in 20 yeaths time? You find that many of the beliefs that they had about our good things would
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