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The parenting happiness penalty

The parenting happiness penalty

Turns out, parenthood isn't exactly how it was sold in the brochure

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Sep 13, 2023
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Last week, I wrote about how parents are statistically less happy than people without children, and I wanted to dive a bit more into why that might be, and what we can do about it.

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