Comment by itsafarqueue

Keep telling yourself that. Kids can be not just ok, not just good, not just great, but the best thing to happen to you in your life.

The studies you refer to regard subjective happiness at particularly difficult child rearing years.

Anecdata from older childless people, the emptiness of childless life once you’re beyond young adulthood is sobering and incredibly sad.

But yeah hold onto those studies that make you feel ok.