For Jessica

[JackLuis]

Love is a hard road.

 

[Handley_Page]

Love is a hard road.

It sure is.
Damn good bit of writing, though

 

[amicus]

That is something you don't force yourself to read; you can't stop reading it, and using a half box of Kleenex in the process.

http://jenniferlawler.com/wordpress/

I found the above at the end of the article, well, actually, back up at the top, browsing for more or later information.



July 19th, 2010

A couple of weeks ago, a friend of mine and I were talking about a study she’d just read, which concluded that people without children were happier than people with children; or, to put it more precisely, despite what conventional wisdom holds, the study found that having children did not increase anyone’s happiness.

At which all I could do was burst out laughing. Because, well. Duh.

Only an academic would undertake a study like this, defining happiness as something along the lines of “satisfaction with life” and “feeling rewarded by your work.” If there’s an occupation more likely to make you feel incompetent and unrewarded than being a parent, I have never heard of it.

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Thank you, JackLuis, for the link.

Amicus