A recent study in Journal of Gender Studies finds that men feel really great about themselves after their partners birth a baby.
Specifically, men feel hot after becoming dads.
Researchers queried heterosexual newlyweds in their first two years of marriage, mostly couples in their mid-twenties who had no previous children, asking, among other things, how each partner perceived him or herself in regards to attractiveness. When returning a couple of years later, the researchers found that, on average, men who’d had no children saw no change in their perceptions, but men who had had a child during that period saw themselves as more attractive.
And why shouldn’t they? Break this down from a biological perspective. If everything is going right he’s done the following: found a partner that he wants to procreate with, successfully impregnated said partner, and stuck around long enough to see the child. Our genes have been spread, our biological imperative to add diversity to the species fulfilled, and so our biochemistry does the equivalent of kicking back with a beer. Score!
