Kids And Happiness Newsweek Analysis

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There are many parents who believes that children make their lives more difficult and decrease their life happiness. In “Kids and Happiness” Newsweek.Com state that parents think that after the first child their marital satisfaction decrease and when the last child leave the house their marital satisfaction increased . Also, patients believe that they become more happier and have more time for them to rest. Of course that children has influences in the parents life, because it’s more responsibility and it makes them worry bout their children happiness and forgetting the happiness of their lives, but children still important for every parents to complete their lives. Bases on the article “kids and Happiness” Newsweek.com author, Arthur C. brooks, state that there are about 7 percentage points of parents who reported that they are happier than those who are childless. On the other hand, parents believes that “bundle of joy” is not the best description way of their offspring, because the study on the emotional of those with kids showed that they are thinking more negative emotions and less positive emotions than those who are childless. Also, the date gathered from …show more content…

One example from the passage “Parents may openly lament their lack of sleep, hectic schedules and difficulty in dealing with their surly teens, but rarely will they cop to feeling depressed due to the everyday rigors of child rearing.” In other words, parents will be wake all night if the child is sick, parents have to wake up early to take them to school, they will take off from work if they have to take them to the doctor. To be a parents is not fun, all the free time parents will have they have to spend it with their kids. Parents always worried about how to keep their children happy and healthy. Children are expensive this days and parents had to work hard to support

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