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Dear A Moment of Science,
親愛的《科學一刻》，
I’m a parent of two young kids.
我有兩個孩子。
It’s challenging, but overall a very rewarding experience.
養育孩子頗具挑戰性，但總體來講，我也獲益良多。
Yet I keep hearing about studies suggesting that parents are less happy than childless couples and single people without children.
一直聽聞有研究表明，那些有孩子的夫妻的幸福指數低于膝下無子的夫妻和單身人士。
How sound is this science?
這種說法有科學依據嗎？
Well, it’s true that over the past several years a wave of studies has associated parenting with unhappiness.
在過去的幾年中，確實有很多研究認為養育子女會降低幸福指數。
But that’s not the whole story.
但這種看法是片面的。
In fact, one study by researchers at the University of California, Riverside, the University of British Columbia, and Stanford found just the opposite:
事實上，加州大學河濱分校、英屬哥倫比亞大學和斯坦福大學研究人員的一項研究得出的結論恰恰相反，
that, all things considered, parenthood is strongly associated with happiness and meaning.
綜合所有因素，親子關系與幸福和意義有著緊密的聯系。
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