So we’d be happier as empty-nester parents? That’s rubbish | Simon Hattenstone

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So we’d be happier as empty-nester parents? That’s rubbish | Simon Hattenstone
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“We have two children, of 27 and 25, at home, and we love having them there.”

Christoph Becker and his colleagues at Heidelberg University in Germany have discovered that people with kids are actually happier than people without – so long as the kids have left home. Their analysis of 55,000 people aged 50 and older from 16 European countries revealed that people with children who had fled the nest had greater life satisfaction and fewer symptoms of depression than those without children.

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