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Take Two

Does having kids really make you happier?

By Take Two Staff
Published May 13, 2014
AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND - MAY 13: Children walk alongside an adult on May 13, 2014 in Auckland, New Zealand. Finance Minister Bill English will deliver the federal budget on Thursday and is expected to announce a surplus and approximately $NZD 1 billion in new spending. Parents may benefit from extra paid parental leave, which has been tipped for inclusion in the 2014 budget announcement. (Photo by Fiona Goodall/Getty Images)
A family in New Zealand. A new study finds that parents are more happy than non-parents.
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Does having kids really make you happier?

Over the past few decades, much of the research on parents and happiness has found that parents are worse off than non-parents. That they're less happy, and more depressed and anxious, than their childless counterparts.

But a new study finds that parents today are actually happier compared to non-parents. John Ifcher, an economics professor at Santa Clara University, joins the show to explain why.