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Text 4 It’s no surprise that Jennifer Senior’sinsightful, provocative magazine cover story, “I love My Children, I Hate MyLife,” is arousing much chatter – nothing gets people talking like thesuggestion that child rearing is anything less than a completely fulfilling,life-enriching experience. Rather than concluding that children make parentseither happy or miserable, Senior suggests we need to redefine happiness:instead of thinking of it as something that can be measured by moment-to-momentjoy, we should consider being happy as a past-tense condition. Even though theday-to-day experience of raising kids can be soul-crushingly hard, Seniorwrites that “the very things that in the moment dampen our moods can later besources of intense gratification and delight.”
The magazine cover showing an attractivemother holding a cute baby is hardly the only Madonna-and-child image onnewsstands this week. There are also stories about newly adoptive – and newlysingle – mom Sandra Bullock, as well as the usual “Jennifer Aniston ispregnant” news. Practically every week features at least one celebrity mom, ormom-to-be, smiling on the newsstands.
In a society that so persistentlycelebrates procreation, is it any wonder that admitting you regret havingchildren is equivalent to admitting you support kitten-killing ? It doesn’tseem quite fair, then, to compare the regrets of parents to the regrets of thechildren. Unhappy parents rarely are provoked to wonder if they shouldn’t havehad kids, but unhappy childless folks are bothered with the message thatchildren are the single most important thing in the world: obviously theirmisery must be a direct result of the gaping baby-size holes in their lives.
Of course, the image of parenthood thatcelebrity magazines like Us Weekly and People present is hugely unrealistic,especially when the parents are single mothers like Bullock. According toseveral studies concluding that parents are less happy than childless couples,single parents are the least happy of all. No shock there, considering how muchwork it is to raise a kid without a partner to lean on; yet to hear Sandra andBritney tell it, raising a kid on their “own” (read: with round-the-clock help)is a piece of cake.
It’s hard to imagine that many people aredumb enough to want children just because Reese and Angelina make it look soglamorous: most adults understand that a baby is not a haircut. But it’sinteresting to wonder if the images we see every week of stress-free,happiness-enhancing parenthood aren’t in some small, subconscious waycontributing to our own dissatisfactions with the actual experience, in thesame way that a small part of us hoped getting “ the Rachel” might make us lookjust a little bit like Jennifer Aniston.Jennifer Senior suggests in her articlethat raising a child can bring A．temporary delight
B．enjoyment in progress
C．happiness in retrospect
D．lasting reward
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