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To be honest I already feel brain damaged from kid-related sleep disruption.

• bredren 4y ago
  If this were as dangerous as intoned, I would expect there would already be observable trends in the acuity of aged parents and those who did not raise children.
  • glitchcrab 4y ago
    I'm sitting here reading this at 3am after having fed my 2 month old son and this was the same thought which crossed my mind. Given how affected my sleep has been (and my experience isn't anything out of the ordinary really), I would absolutely expect to see some pretty clear trends showing up.
    • civilized 4y ago
      I wonder if the kids are brain damaged from not sleeping too. Just, brain damage all around. Brain damage...
    • the_af 4y ago
      Just 2 months old? The good news is that you can still be sleep deprived three years later! Source: me.
    • bredren 4y ago
      Just celebrated our first's one year birthday. Hang in there, it's awesome.
  • gruez 4y ago
    That's going to be confounded because people who have kids are probably self selected to be doing well financially, which is correlated with mental accuity.
    • jahewson 4y ago
      That should be easy to control for.
    • Aeolun 4y ago
      > people who have kids are probably self selected to be doing well financially Doesn’t everything point to the opposite? People that are doing well generally do not have a huge family.