The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
But it does seem that despite most every parent reporting that their kids are their greatest source of joy and quote-unquote happiness in life that people who opt not to have children are at least as happy or report being at least as happy or even happier than those that opt to have children.
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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If you look at the ratings of happiness among people that elected to not have children versus those that had, most people who have children report their overall levels of happiness as lower than that of people who opt not to have children.