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People forget that kids can do useful stuff like wash the car and dishes. "This isn't a hotel you know"
Yes! How did I miss that?
People forget that kids can do useful stuff like wash the car and dishes. "This isn't a hotel you know"
More like scienz!
Sometimes when you try to quantify an experience in order to study it, you strip it of the very intangibles driving the behavior and thus arrive at a wrong or misdirected answer.
Economics has physics envy!Economics explains parent/child relationships about as well as chemistry explains music.
All of my girlfriends who have kids tell me never to have children.
I'm not sure that's very good advice. Why do they say that?
Economics explains parent/child relationships about as well as chemistry explains music.
People forget that kids can do useful stuff like wash the car and dishes. "This isn't a hotel you know"
Also, one point I forgot to add, I have seen people spend thousands of dollars on vet bill. Trying to cure their 18 year old dog of cancer and crap (which I would never do). I wonder if they are just pretending wanting to be a pet owner as well...
All of my girlfriends who have kids tell me never to have children.
Do people rationalize their fear of having children with economic calculations?
I don't know. I believe some people really are...obsessed with children. I never related to these people - some men, but mainly women - I was like, yeah, well you knock yourself out with that.
One of my cousins actually said when we were teenagers she'd rather have kids without a husband than a husband without kids.
You know, like a junkie.
Parents hanging out for their next Oxytocin hit?
Heh. You can take any two variables and try to find a link between it. But of course, a link doesn't automatically mean the one thing causes the other. There is a famous example of this: in the years 1970, both the number of storks and the number of infants born declined heavily in Sweden. Does that mean storks bring children? Or was there something else - pollution maybe?
I think parental joy has a much simpler explanation. Genetics. Any genetic combination which results in more successful offspring is likely to get spread more. We're genetically engineered (read: evolved) to be happy parents.