If you survive the sleep deprivation, toddler tantrums and teenage angst, you may be rewarded with a longer life than your childless peers, researchers said Tuesday. Fathers gained more in life expectancy than mothers, a team wrote in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health — and particularly in older age. For mothers, life expectancy at 80 was nine years and six months, while for childless women it was eight years and 11 months. The study merely pointed out a correlation, and cannot conclude that having children is the cause of the life expectancy gains, the researchers admitted. The association between having children and longer life was found in married and unmarried people, but appeared to be strongest in single, older men, said the study.

Source: Manila Times March 14, 2017 03:33 UTC