Having children may be a source of joy and personal fulfilment, but a new study suggests parents are exaggerating the rewards of parenthood to justify how much money it's costing them.
When parents say their children are the true source of happiness and fulfillment in their lives, they may be enacting a psychological defence to justify all the time, money and energy they put into the job, finds a new Canadian study.
I think that study could be done with Jellybeans instead of children and get the same results.
If one group was given information on how fattening Jellybeans are and how they may lead to diabetes and the other group not given that information the group given the negative information would report jellybeans tasting better.
This study really shows nothing about parenting. It just shows that humans do not always make economical decisions and are poor at risk assessment and cost benefit analysis.
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Well it's nice to see this thread is going well in its early going.
J Pold, how do you know when you have enough money to do so? In my experience, people just have kids and they deal with the expenses as they come. Yeah, it's not ideal according to Budgeting 101, but it's how most people do it.
Nobody's ever really ready to have kids. Until you see their little faces needing you to do absolutely everything for them. Then you're hooked. For life.
Nobody's ever really ready to have kids. Until you see their little faces needing you to do absolutely everything for them. Then you're hooked. For life.
In the context of the thread, I found this humorous.
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If I have children it won't be until I have the money in the bank to do so.
That means you'll probably never have kids (which is totally fine btw and I don't mean it as a shot at that choice). I am not one of those people who thinks that because I decided to have kids everyone else should as well.
I just figure that if I had saved all of the money in advance to have kids it never would've happened. It would be next to impossible for me to save a couple million up and then decide to spend it on raising another human being (especially when I think of it like that).
as of this moment my 8 yr son is mad at me because i won't let him play video games this morning until he has done some reading.....my daughter was giving us a load of attitude because we wanted her to brush her teeth before heading off to gymtastics......
i sometimes think paratenting is about extremes - they can love you a lot, or frustrate the heck out of you, they can make you laugh or cry........they can be fun or completely drain the energy out of you......
the comments on that story made me laugh my head off - people being so sure thier kids will be around to take care of them when they are older........
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Parents exaggerate joy of parenting to justify costs: study
