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The good life is painful

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

Why Do We Keep Having Kids?

Alon: Having kids diminishes your day to day happiness. It reduces merital satisfaction, we got a lot of data on that by now. And it doesn't really go away until the kids are out of the house. He says children are not predominantly hedonic choice. Men tend to be happier being dads than women being mums. Older people tend tobe happier than younger people. But there's no way this conversation ends with me saying it's kind of a no brainer.

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