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mises
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 Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 10:28 am Post subject: |
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| Big_Bird wrote: |
and for mises
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| Here's a question back at you. What's the difference between a man who doesn't want to marry and have kids and a woman who doesn't want to marry and have kids? |
Both will be less happy than they would be had they obeyed their biology. Probably.
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But let's assume the study is sound and that (white) women have become less happy relative to men since 1972. Does that mean that feminism ruined their lives?
Not according to Stevenson and Wolfers, who find that "the relative decline in women's well-being... holds for both working and stay-at-home mothers, for those married and divorced, for the old and the young, and across the education distribution" -- as well as for both mothers and the childless. If feminism were the problem, you might expect divorced women to be less happy than married ones and employed women to be less happy than stay-at-homes. As for having children, the presumed premier source of female fulfillment: They actually make women less happy.
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http://www.zcommunications.org/znet/viewArticle/22880 |
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091027101420.htm
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ScienceDaily (Oct. 27, 2009) � Having children improves married peoples' life satisfaction and the more they have, the happier they are. For unmarried individuals, raising children has little or no positive effect on their happiness. These findings by Dr. Luis Angeles from the University of Glasgow in the UK have just been published online in Springer's Journal of Happiness Studies.
For married individuals of all ages and married women in particular, children increase life satisfaction and life satisfaction goes up with the number of children in the household. Negative experiences in raising children are reported by people who are separated, living as a couple, or single, having never been married. Children take their toll on their parents' satisfaction with social life, and amount and use of leisure time.
Dr. Angeles concludes: "One is tempted to advance that children make people better off under the 'right conditions' -- a time in life when people feel that they are ready, or at least willing, to enter parenthood. This time can come at very different moments for different individuals, but a likely signal of its approach may well be the act of marriage."
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It's the battle of the studies! |
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