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Children do not bring happiness

December 27th, 2007

After birth of the child young mother tries to build anew the life, to find balance among her “last” and “present”. This internal struggle takes first three - four years of child’s life, consider psychologists.

With the appearance of posterity in family happy young parents … actually do not feel any happiness! Such is the statement of the English scientists from Institute of social and economic researches. Within seven years, from 1996 to 2003, scientists studied behavior of 3856 married couples-parents, informs Reuters. It was found out, that birth of successors in no way raise men’s degree of satisfaction with their life. About 17 % of them have declared that the work brings them more happy minutes, than their own children.

What is the reason of that negative psychological influence of a small member of the family on the parents in the first years of life? “There is one assumption: perhaps, young mother tries to build anew the life in connection with birth of the child, to find balance between her “previous” and “present”, - reason psychologist Ellison But. - Apparently, this internal struggle took these first three - four years of child’s life”.


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