Paternity benefit, motherhood - to the detriment?

When women have postpartum depression in men occurs postpartum flourishing. The study showed that a significant number of men who have recently become fathers feel more attractive.

Scientists from the University of California, Santa Barbara have discovered that immediately after the appearance of a child's father feels much more attractive than before. According to one theory, the pope became a man keen sense of his masculinity, he saw his own "mini-version". But it is also self-esteem affects the adoration of his wife, who admires her husband holding a baby in her arms.

Women thrive during pregnancy, and men after childbirth . Most of the young fathers interviewed admitted that they have strengthened their own serious way, when his wife gave him an heir. Themselves representatives of the stronger sex call this "hidden advantage" Paternity . But women, unfortunately, are not experiencing similar emotions after childbirth . The reason for this may be a physical need to take the brunt of caring for the baby, due to which young mothers cease to be like themselves before delivery.

The researchers studied 182 young wife, with an average age of men was 26 years, and women 24. All the participants appreciated the observations of its appeal on a scale at the beginning of the study, and then a year later, and then again a year later. It was found that men who did not experience happiness Paternity The level of attractiveness remained stable. But the birth of the child sharply raised him. Women, on the other hand, after delivery, this figure decreased. (READ MORE)

Psychology

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