Results: Parenting : Worse than We Thought
1.
1.
Recently a German study was published in the journal Demography, in which it was discovered that the first year of being a parent has a more devastating effect on a person than divorce, unemployment, or the death of a spouse. Have you heard about this? Yes
6%
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104 votes
No
81%
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1397 votes
Undecided
4%
•
62 votes
Not Applicable
9%
•
154 votes
2.
2.
The researchers followed childless couples until they became pregnant and then two years after the birth of their first baby. They found that the impact on their happiness was quite severe - 70% of those studied reported a drop in happiness in the first year or two after having a baby. Do these findings surprise you? Yes
29%
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494 votes
No
45%
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771 votes
Undecided
13%
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222 votes
Not Applicable
13%
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230 votes
3.
3.
Why do you think these people experienced such a drop in happiness? They had unrealistically high expectations going in.
20%
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339 votes
They were negative people to begin with.
5%
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78 votes
Being a parent really does suck.
8%
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133 votes
A combination of things.
33%
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566 votes
C'mon, they're German. Those people are notoriously negative.
2%
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41 votes
I really don't know.
20%
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337 votes
n/a
13%
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223 votes
4.
4.
When you first became a parent, did you find it better or worse than expected? It was better than I expected it to be.
18%
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301 votes
It was worse than I expected it to be.
11%
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183 votes
It was just as I expected it to be.
14%
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239 votes
I didn't have any expectations.
8%
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145 votes
I never really thought about it.
10%
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164 votes
n/a
39%
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670 votes
Other (please specify)
1%
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15 votes
| Other Answers | Percentage | Votes |
| 0.17% | 3 | |
| not a parent lit alley | 0.06% | 1 |
| was more responsibility than expected but also very rewarding | 0.06% | 1 |
| it was better and worse | 0.06% | 1 |
| it was more challenging than i expected it to be | 0.06% | 1 |
| some really good and some a little hard. | 0.06% | 1 |
| it's thrilling, yet it's also exhausting! | 0.06% | 1 |
| see people are alays picking and choosing steryotyping but that is exactly what this is all about you can not base one group with another were all different and bout time the world gets that | 0.06% | 1 |
| all the fear of not knowing, wanting to be different from your parents and listening to stupid negative attitudes just about kills us all | 0.06% | 1 |
| dont have kids if u weak | 0.06% | 1 |
| not a parent | 0.06% | 1 |
| i found it hard but fun. | 0.06% | 1 |
| never did that | 0.06% | 1 |
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