So we’d be happier as empty-nester parents? That’s rubbish | Simon Hattenstone
My children are adults, and the house is buzzing with life. Even thinking of them leaving fills me with a sense of loss
by Simon Hattenstone
Aug 21, 2019
2 minutes
Christoph Becker and his colleagues at Heidelberg University in Germany have discovered that people with kids are – so long as the kids have left home. Their analysis of 55,000 people aged 50 and older from 16 European countries revealed that people with children who had fled the nest had greater life satisfaction and fewer symptoms of depression than
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