Tag Archives: Happiness

“Do Kids Make You Happier?”

Last Wednesday NBC’s Today Show reported that adults without children are 7% happier than those with children. Having just written on Demographic Winter, I was struck by seeing this rather opposing perspective the next day. You can see it for yourself here. The central finding: “Marital satisfaction decreases after the birth of the first kid, …

July 4, 2008 – 6:41 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Life and Choices | Tagged , , | Comments (3)

Further Effects of “Child Abuse:” Spirituality Is Major Contributor to Children’s Happiness

Richard Dawkins is famously trying to convince the world that it’s abusive to raise children in a religious tradition–any religious tradition. It’s an ironically unscientific opinion, not just unsupported but actually contradicted by research. Mike Gene points to yet another instance of that: Spirituality — defined as an inner belief system — accounted for eight …

March 31, 2008 – 12:29 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Evidences, New Atheism | Tagged , | Comments (7)