Kids good for your health? Parents have lower blood pressure

(USAtoday) Being a parent can be stressful, but new research calls into question some long-held beliefs about physical and psychological effects of having kids.  A study published today in Annals of Behavioral Medicine finds that parents have better blood pressure readings than childless adults. “Women were driving the effect,” says co-author Julianne Holt-Lunstad, a psychologist …

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