It is generally accepted that women are more worried about their childlessness than men. In fact, this is far from the case. Men find it more difficult to come to terms with this fact, and this was proved by a researcher from the University of Kiel Robin Hadley.
Men to the same extent want to have children as women, and if they do not have them, they feel more isolated, sadness, anger, and depression appear. But while for women the main driving force in this matter is personal desire and biological need, for men, family and cultural norms play an important role in shaping the desire to have a baby, which, among other things, also form the opinion of others about each specific person.
Interviewing childless people (27 men and 81 women), whose average age was 41 years old, Hadley found that 59 percent of men and 63 percent of women want a child. As for the feelings that these people experienced in connection with their childlessness, the picture was as follows: half of the men had to face isolation due to the absence of children, and among women there were 27 percent.
38 percent of men and, again, 27 percent of women suffered from depressive moods. Attacks of anger made life difficult for 25 percent of men and only 18 percent of women. At times, 56 percent of men and 43 percent of women were sad. As you can see, childlessness really hits men harder.
