A new study says that the adoption of children can help you live longer
The research discovers that the adoption of a child seems to add three years to your life.
You have probably heard that you have children can give your health a boost.Research showed that be pregnant canReduce the risk of a woman from certain types of cancerAnd can often have a positive effect on overall health. But a new study published in theEuropean population newspaper found that it is not only the physical act of maternity that has health benefits; adopt children can alsoprolong the life men and women.
Kieron Barclay of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, andMartin Kolk From the University of Stockholm brought together data on more than four million Swedish women and men born between 1915 and 1960 to learn more about post-reproductive mortality. In accordance with previous studies, they found thatbiological parents Generally live longer than those who are without children, as long as they have four children or less.
But they also noted that the adoption of a child seems to add three years to your life and adopt two or three additions still five years, moreover, the more the merry seems to come the adoption! The mortality rate was also much lower among those who have adopted internationally rather than in their own country.
Granted, researcherswarned it is possible that people who decide to have children - whether biologically or by adoption, arehealthier to start. The study can not really confirm that children specifically adds years to your life. But the results contest the popular notion that children take yearsdeactivatedYour life and give you gray hair. It seems that - in the end, they have more than makeup for all those whosleepless nights!
And for more benefits of being a parent, checkStudy finds empty breeders are happier than those who do not have children.
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