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Childless men are happiest: researchWednesday 03 June 2009 Fathers tend to have higher incomes than men without children but childless men tend to be happier, according to research by the Dutch demographic institute NIDI, quoted by the Telegraaf. 'Fathers earn on average 6% more than childless men,' researcher Renske Keizer told the paper. The difference is probably because fathers are often breadwinners and have more ambition to earn higher salaries, Keizer said. At the same time, men without children tend to be slightly happier than fathers. Fathers have less time to spend with their wives or doing their own thing, which they experience as a negative factor, Keizer told the paper. © DutchNews.nl Get the DutchNews.nl newsletter in your mailbox: Click here to subscribe
And what about women? By Su | June 3, 2009 6:26 PM Well i totally agree about it at least the age i am now (28)... By kos | June 3, 2009 7:27 PM Another profoundly vague and meaningless study. In a month or year from now the media will print another study that shows the opposite. This info is as baseless as reading your daily published horoscope. By Bryan | June 3, 2009 9:29 PM Bryan is right, this is so vague and How they are rating "happiness is probably very arbitrary ". I know too many fathers that say "I would have missed the best in life had I not been blessed with children. By bet | June 4, 2009 3:58 AM what is this suppose to mean? should we all remain childless? Survey those in their 70 -80s. Loneliness is killing them. No children visits,No grandchildren to draw for them. I think is better to be little happy now to be happy in your old age. By kwabena | June 4, 2009 8:01 AM What a stupid research. Based on statistics data mainly... which always provide immense oportunities for untalented and those who obtained their diplomas on who knows which way (not to mention politicians, urban planners and similar)... I have worked in one such environment - you won't believe what kind of nonsense some professors and doctors of sciences can produce... By Dusxpress | June 4, 2009 8:39 AM Agreed, the research is in fact baseless and meaningless and is just an excercise in data collection for what-ever-reason. Kos got it correct I think, "at my age", so the variable of age is probably the greatest factor here and my personal feeling is that the majority of males at a certain age probably enjoy their unattached and without responsibility or obligation status ...... for a while. By Solkhar | June 4, 2009 11:32 AM Are there only parents talking here? I'm a parent myself, but I can see that childless men and women could possibly be happier: they have more time, money, attention to spend on themselves or their partner. They will not find out what they're missing as they don't have kids. Us parents often feel we know better when we make them feel guilty about 'what they're missing blahblah'. And what is that selfishness about taking kids just so you're not lonely in old age?? Ever heard of kids who never visit? Kids who give you the most miserable time when you're old? I hope my kids will be nice to me, maybe give me some grandchildren (who I will have far more time for than their parents had when they were young) and overall be happy people. But they are their own people, not mine. Don't forget either that there are a lot of people for whom it's just not possible to have kids. How great is it for them to be constantly confronted with 'you're missing the best thing in life, and sorry, you're not blessed, ok?' By Carzno | June 4, 2009 5:31 PM Place your comments: |
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So cheers to that too! Another reason not to wake up one day.
By Father Frost | June 3, 2009 4:54 PM