Question

Many people who choose not to have children suspect that homebound, sleep-deprived, and financially strapped parents are fooling themselves when they say that nothing in life brings them more pleasure than parenthood. in other words, these childless people suggest that parents put a lot of energy into ____________ in order to decrease cognitive dissonance.

Answer 1

The answer is effort justification. It is an idea as well as paradigm in the social psychology in which people who have reach the goal yet discover that it was not worth it. It is from the cognitive dissonance theory of Leon Festinger.