Happiness is ... not having the children This according to Daniel Gilbert, professor of psychology at Harvard University, who was speaking at the Happiness & Its Causes conference in Sydney yesterday. He said people's happiness goes into steep decline after they have children, and never recovers its old level until the children leave home. As a source of pleasure, playing with one's offspring rates just above doing housework ... Read full entry
Happiness is … not having the children
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Study: Old Age Is the Happiest Time
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Study: Old Age Is the Happiest Time And here's why: "The good news is that with age comes happiness," said study author Yang Yang, a University of Chicago sociologist. "Life gets better in one's perception as one ages." A certain amount of distress in old age is inevitable, including aches, pains and deaths of loved ones and friends. But older people generally have learned to be more content with what they ... Read full entry
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