Children dont make you happy, says expert who doesn't have any

Having children doesn't make people happy, according to an expert who doesn't actually have any himself.

UK Telegraph
20 Mar 2009
The cult of selfishness continues to beat its drums against marriage, against having children and for abortion. “And the Love of MANY shall wax cold.”  This coldness, these very attitudes invaded the church beginning in the late 1970’s and one can see the evil fruit of Christians have no children or one or two, the churches Sunday school programs are empty across the nation, there are no young people to speak of in these churches, as there are few young married couples. The end of many churches and denominations are coming just as it was prophesied in Deuteronomy where God said if my people will turn from me I will curse them and make them few that there enemies shall have the rule over them. There are FEW households in the US that walk righteously before the Lord in LOVE and OBEDIENCE and that raise their children in the FEAR and ADMONITION of the Lord. And to date this is the only thing that has spared the US the full fury of the Lord as is seen in the UK and EU.

 

It is time to consider your ways, it is time to repent and turn and follow the words and commandments of Jesus Christ.

Social scientist Dr Nattavudh Powdthavee said there was "almost zero association" between having children and happiness.

He said: "In a recent study of British adults, for example, we found that parents and non-parents reported the same levels of life satisfaction."

Dr Powdthavee, from the University of York, said most parents remember milestones like a first smile, and think these rewards more than compensate them for the challenging task of raising children.

But any small bursts of happiness are cancelled out by the day-to-day chores of having a family, he said in the latest issue of The Psychologist, the magazine of The British Psychological Society.

He said: "To imagine what it's like being a mother or a father we're likely to focus more on the good things about being a parent than the bad things.

"This is mainly because we believe that the rare but meaningful experiences like a child's first smile, or graduating from university, or seeing them get married will give us massive and long-lasting increases in happiness. (I rise up every morning for my children, I have cared for them loved them discipline them taught them on my knee to read and write, taught them about the bible, God, Jesus Christ, prayer, sin righteousness and the judgment and my children have been no end of Joy for me.  And as I have loved them now in the days of my infirmity I have been so greatly blessed as to have them love and care for me so dearly.)

"These boosts in wellbeing tend not to last for very long. Instead, parents spend much of their time attending to the very core processes of childcare – problems at school, cooking and laundry – which are much more frequent.  (There is great happiness and satisfaction in raising children of righteousness unto the Lord not only to myself, but to their future husbands and wives and to the community they live in and let their lights shine even as I have done.)

"It is these small but negative experiences that are more likely to impact on our day-to-day levels of happiness and life satisfaction."

Despite his research Dr Powdthavee, 30, and his girlfriend are thinking about starting a family of their own.