The More Kids, the Lower Moms' Suicide Risk
These latest findings give some support to that theory, researcher Dr. Chun-Yuh Yang, of Kaohsiung Medical University in Taiwan, told Reuters Health by email.
Looking at 30 years' worth of data on 1.3 million Taiwanese mothers, Yang found that women with two children were 39 percent less likely than those with one child to commit suicide.
That risk was 60 percent lower among women with three or more children, Yang reports in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
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Although the current study included only Taiwanese women, Yang said the findings are likely relevant to other countries as well. Studies done in Norway, Denmark and Finland have found a similar relationship between a woman's number of children and her risk of suicide. Well, of course! It's all in God's plans. Take that, you stinkin' population control people. Alas, the population control fundamentalists probably think it's better to have depressed people who will take themselves out of the world sooner, thus reducing their carbon footprint. I'm only half joking. The article rightly points out that it could be more that those with a depressed outlook on life choose not to have kids. That's true. But, it still proves that the tendency towards health and well-being is geared towards bringing children into the world. And it's the sign of a healthy person to hope in the future, no matter what is going on in the present.
