No kids, no happiness? It's a myth

Subject: No kids, no happiness? It's a myth Tue Aug 07, 2012 3:39 am

They are straight and gay, single and married. And they have one thing in common - they are childless by choice.

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When psychology academic Bronwyn Harman, from Edith Cowan University in Western Australia, set out to uncover the truth about childlessness in Australia, she did what many researchers do to get a sample these days. She hit social media in a big way.

Her simple request must have really triggered something in the Australian psyche - the Perth researcher found that instead of getting the 30 or 40 volunteers she expected, 10 times that number responded.

Harman did the research, she says, because childlessness is a part of society that is rarely scrutinised. So busy are we decoding how families form, how children develop, and what makes a good parent, that we forget the numbers among us who choose not to have children. Never to have children.
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Perhaps I understood that idea once. Maybe there was a time, in my teens and early twenties, when I thought ''I am too much a child myself, how can I parent them?'' That kind of self-indulgence is not the usual reason why Australians choose not to parent. Now when someone tells me they don't have kids, I say: ''Oh, I'm so sorry.'' Two researchers tell me I have some rethinking to do.

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/opinion/no-kids-no-happiness-its-a-myth-20120807-23r84.html

No kids, no happiness? It's a myth

No kids, no happiness? It's a myth

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