Now we know why we are all so miserable - it's because children don't make us happy, says The Times.

[BoffinMum]

Article from yesterday's Times here

I do despair sometimes when I see these anti-child sentiments expressed publicly. As children constitute a whopping 25% of the population, and we have all been one at some point, it baffles me as to why children are continually pathologised and commoditised as being troublesome and difficult (or even having an unnecessarily large carbon footprint, as Jonathan Porritt might put it), as though children were some sort of optional extra lifestyle accessory misguidedly brought into the world by deluded parents for their own gratification. And there was me thinking that children were people.

Does British society really resent children this much now?

Thanks Twinset. I've read lots of your posts. With everything you've been through I'm not even vaguely surprised that you struggle with depression.

You are always balanced, wise and intelligent in what you have to say. I would never have guessed that you suffered from depression - though lord only knows how you're supposed to guess about something like that!

I suspect that most of us have been there at some point..have raged against the feelings that we SO don't want to have. The feelings that don't equate with the blessings we've had...our children. But we still sometimes feel so low that we can't hitch our selves out of bed in the mornings.

I hope that your depression comes to an end. That you find the sunshine in your life again. That this terrible, debilitating illness leaves you and gives you back your special memories. You deserve them.

Thread hijack over.. hope that didn't come across all netmums!

my dcs are 28 mths and 7 mths and although I am knackered I am much happier and laugh a lot more on average than pre dcs. It may be hard work looking after them sometimes but the pleasure they have brought to our lives is more than I could ever have imagined beforehand. I'd be interested in their definition/measurement of happiness...

Thanks squilly, nowt wrong with a bit of netmums every now and again.