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Re:Yes, Social Media Is a Cause of the Epidemic of Teenage M... by m_fayer on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @08:14AM (#39989840)
As we make parenting harder and harder in lots of creative and sadistic ways, more and more people are taking your advice. That’s got its own problems, it turns out.
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Re:Yes, Social Media Is a Cause of the Epidemic of Teenage M... by silverquiet on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @08:24AM (#39989910)
> The recent proliferation of studies examining cross-national variation in the association between parenthood and happiness reveal accumulating evidence of lower levels of happiness among parents than nonparents in most advanced industrialized societies.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5222535/

I never saw myself as capable of withstanding the stress of parenting and so I never even really thought about having kids. I thought I was a far outlier, but, given trends in fertility, I think I may have just been early in realizing this.

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