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Posted on 01/13/2014 7:19:07 AM PST by Olog-hai
Many married couples cite the birth of their first child as the happiest day of their lives; but childless couples are in fact more happily married than those who have children, a study has found.
The project has found that people without children are more satisfied with their relationships and more likely to feel valued by their partner.
The study, by the Open University, involved interviews and surveys with more than 5,000 people of all ages, statuses and sexual orientations. When people were asked to rate the quality of their relationship those without children emerged as happier overall. […]
Yet when asked to rate how happy they were with their lives in general, there was a gender divide. Mothers were happier overall than any other group, while childless women were the least happy. By contrast, men with children emerged slightly less happy than those without. …
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Well, thanks for clarifying that...for a while there I thought theirs would be a marriage that they would have to go to the Supreme Court to have ratified..... ;)
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Echoed by Obama?
That all depends on if they were actually patented with expectations, goals and values. It is extremely common today to "free range" nowadays, aka spoil, coddle and helicopter junior so that he/she becomes a sniveling, entitled, narcissistic brat with no empathy who fails to launch well past the age of 21. This generation will be the first in line to pull the plug on mom and dad, demand a large inheritance, then urinate on their parent's graves.
Hate the surface tablet keyboard
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