David Brooks, an Op-Ed New York Times columnist, writes in The Opinion Pages about working mothers and child rearing. Brooks mentions several social science research papers to include Sarah Damaske's research on how work can be less stressful than home.
The office is often a more relaxing place than the home. Sarah Damaske, Joshua Smyth and Matthew Zawadzki found that people are more likely to have lower values of the stress hormone cortisol when they are at work than when at home. Maybe that’s because parenting small kids is so demanding. But, on the contrary: Having children around was correlated with less relative stress at home.
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