Talk:Voluntary childlessness
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U.S. childfree happiness statistics
[edit]1 - The Deseret is at least a secondary source, but runs afoul of WP:NEWSOPED. Fortunately, you found The Atlantic as a source, which, by WP:RSP will probably be accepted here. I reordered the citations so that that citation appears first.
2 - I didn't get too far into reading it, but the first source is making the exact opposite point. From the paper:
reveal considerable variation in the parenthood gap in happiness across countries, with the U.S. showing the largest disadvantage of parenthood.
Due to the confusion, it is likely that there are SYNTH/OR issues in using this source, and the statement should be removed entirely. That is why I removed that statement.
3 - As the paragraph in question is U.S. centric. I have moved it to that country's statistical section in the article. It did not make sense in the first section. I also made sure to specifically include that this was pandemic era statistics in the introducing sentence of that paragraph, since all the articles seem to note this.
4 - I didn't want to do it myself yet, but the references were not put into the proper citation format. Could you please do so if I don't eventually get to it? At the very least, the correct format for a link needs a space character after the link.
5 - This is a little tangential to the point at hand, but I am awfully confused by these articles' use of the word "unmarried." Does that lump together divorced and never married? These differences appear to be very important in the Psychology Today article.
Fephisto (talk) 03:21, 24 February 2025 (UTC)
- W fephisto
- The citation format should be good though, its from Wikipedia:Bare URLs 'simple title'.
- I think the initial contradiction you presented in the second point is because the source uses old data, which usually showed that unmarried couples were generally happier than married ones. Mine are from 2020 and 2022. Skellyret (talk) 14:56, 24 February 2025 (UTC)
Young children may adopt vulgar language since 2020s.
[edit]Men and women are concerned about young children that they may adopt vulgar language because they often imitate what they hear from others, including family members, friends, or media, and may not fully understand the meaning or inappropriate nature of the words they are repeating; this behavior is usually driven by curiosity or a desire to fit in with peers, and can be considered a normal developmental phase, especially if the child is not using the language aggressively or with malicious intent. @Nerd271 @Fephisto Sherlocks1050 (talk) 15:16, 1 March 2025 (UTC)
- I've served my prison sentence with this article. The judge has allowed me to leave early on good behavior. Bye. Fephisto (talk) 18:20, 2 March 2025 (UTC)