Childless Men More Depressed Than Childless Women, Study Finds

Submitted by Mastodon on Mon, 2013-04-08 16:43

Article here. Excerpt:

'Even though there's often more social pressure on women to have kids, men may actually feel more depressed and lonely over not having children, according to the results of a small British survey.

The findings were presented at the annual meeting of the British Sociological Association in London Wednesday (April 3) by Robin Hadley, of the United Kingdom's Keele University, who polled 27 men and 81 women who didn't have kids.

About the same proportions of men and women said they wanted kids (59 percent of men and 63 percent of women). Among that group, half of the men said they experienced isolation because they weren't parents, while just over a quarter of women said the same.

Compared with women, these men also were more likely to feel jealous of other parents and sad, angry, and depressed over not having kids.
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Whereas the focus of this study was childless adults who wanted kids, it's important to note that not all people without children are the same. There are those who choose to be childfree and those facing infertility, job demands or financial concerns.'

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Pool of subjects is way too small to draw conclusions. Also, they were polling ppl with a stated desire to have children. As the article says, they didn't include ppl w/out such a stated desire.

Still, it's an interesting and necessary foray into the topic. One of the untruths that feminists have been good abt propagating is the idea that men are categorically less involved emotionally in parenthood either before or after children are born. This false belief has made it easier for the courts and society at large to believe it's fine to dispense with dad in a child's daily life and just send him the bills.

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Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2013-04-09 01:17