It’s not just social connections late in life that determine happiness and other measures of life satisfaction. Although they’re crucial, they occur in a context of a lifetime of social connections. Men who had “warm” childhood relationships with their mothers earned an average of $87,000 more a year than men whose mothers were uncaring. (Wow! Thanks, Mom!) Men who had poor childhood relationships with their mothers were much more likely to develop dementia when old. Late in their professional lives, the men’s boyhood relationships with their mothers—but not with their fathers—were associated
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