Wenn ich Statistiken \u00fcber sinkende Geburtenraten und ihre Hintergr\u00fcnde lese, lese ich gerne besonders gr\u00fcndlich und recherchiere, bis ich das Studiendesign und die ganz konkreten Fragen mitsamt Anwortm\u00f6glichkeiten finde. Dabei habe ich noch kein einziges Mal als Antwortangebot gelesen: \u201eWeil ich Kinder nicht mag.\u201c<\/p>\n
Deshalb muss es als revolution\u00e4r gelten, wenn Reason Magazine<\/i> titelt:<\/p>\n
Why are People Having Fewer Kids?
\nPerhaps it’s because they don’t like them very much.<\/b><\/p>\n
Gl\u00fccksforscher haben n\u00e4mlich herausgefunden, dass es nicht unbedingt Freude bereitet, Kinder gro\u00df zu ziehen.<\/p>\n
“Economists have modeled the impact of many variables on people’s overall happiness and have consistently found that children have only a small impact. A small negative impact,” reports Harvard psychologist and happiness researcher Daniel Gilbert. In addition, the more children a person has the less happy they are. According to Gilbert, researchers have found that people derive more satisfaction from eating, exercising, shopping, napping, or watching television than taking care of their kids. “Indeed, looking after the kids appears to be only slightly more pleasant than doing housework,” asserts Gilbert in his bestselling, Stumbling on Happiness (2006).
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\nAnd if people with fewer children are happier, then people with no children must be happiest, right? Not exactly, but the data do suggest that voluntarily childless women and men are not less happy than parents. And they sure do have more money to squander as they try to pursue what happiness they can and strive to somehow fill up their allegedly empty lives.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n