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A new study has proved that children are essential for a happy married life.
There have researches which have mentioned that increase in number of children can lead to lesser satisfaction in marriage. But this is because that bringing up children is something which is not very rewarding always.
Luis Angeles from the University of Glasgow, who led the study, believes that this explanation is too simplistic. People, when asked about the top priority of their lives, have mentioned children first.
Contrary to previous work, Angeles' analysis of the relationship between having children and life satisfaction takes into account the role of individual characteristics, including marital status, gender, age, income and education.
According to the study, children can increase the level of satisfaction in married people of all ages, especially in women with the satisfaction registering an increase with an increase in children.
Negative experiences in raising children are reported by people who are separated, living as a couple, or single, and have never been married. Children take their toll on their parents' satisfaction with their social life, and the amount and use of leisure time.
These results were published online in Springer's Journal of Happiness Studies.
