So says a professor who has done extensive research into what makes people happy. He also said in an interview in the Independent today:
"The presence of children detracts from the quality of marriage, at least to the quality of the modern, romantic, equal marriage. The situation becomes even more unhappy in modern marriages where the mother is working and looking after children."
But what of those who say that having children was the best thing they ever did? "These people might think so, but they don't know how life would have been if they hadn't had children." But the trend reverses at the age of 85, when those with children are happier than those without.
I think that's a load of rubbish, really! I am far far happier than any of my still childless friends. And what of the unhappiness that the yearning for a child can bring?
I can accept that children don't necessarily bring happiness for everybody, but to suggest that I only think I'm happy because I don't know how good my life would have been without children is just rubbish.
Anybody agree with this man?
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