Understanding social aspects of parental well‐being is vital because parents' welfare has
implications not only for the parents themselves but also for child development, fertility, and …

Résumé Cet article présente un aperçu des recherches dans le domaine de la fécondité
réalisées dans les sociétés dites avancées, c'est-à-dire les sociétés dans lesquelles le …

The recent proliferation of studies examining cross-national variation in the association
between parenthood and happiness reveal accumulating evidence of lower levels of …

The shift to more time-intensive and child-centered parenting in the United States is widely
assumed to be positively linked to healthy child development, but implications for adult well …

Understanding how having children influences parents' subjective well-being (“happiness”)
has great potential to explain fertility behavior. We study parental happiness trajectories …

In 1972, Congress took another major step forward by requiring each state's Medicaid
program to include coverage of family planning services and supplies for all beneficiaries of …

This paper examines the influence of public greenspace on the life satisfaction of residents
of Australia's capital cities. A positive relationship is found between the percentage of public …

Using happiness as a well-being measure and comparative data from the European social
survey we focus in this paper on the link between happiness and childbearing across …

Parenthood, marital status and social networks have been shown to relate to the well-being
and mental health of older people. Using a large sample of respondents aged 50 and older …

Research studies and popular accounts of parenting have documented the joys and strains
of raising children. Much of the literature comparing parents with those without children …