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June 23, 2009
Mehgan Daum of the Los Angeles Times detailed new national figures in a recent article.
“A study released last month from the National Bureau of Economic Research and the University of Pennsylvania showed that even though men’s and women’s happiness levels have both gone down over the last few decades, women’s “subjective well-being” has declined “both absolutely and relatively to men.” The data came from a cross-section of ethnic and socioeconomic groups in several industrialized countries, and appeared to be big news primarily for one reason: When the same research was conducted in the 1970s, women reported higher levels of happiness than they do today.”
What is your opinion?
I agree with Kay, many of these ladies are overwellmed. I also think that we want more “things” that we think will make us happy, thus if we don’t have them we’re not “happy.” Being happy doesn’t need to cost a lot, just spending time together, talking, giving your child a hug, working together in the yard, etc. is so valuable both to children and adults.
It is the “pursuit of happiness”. Once you realize that freedom does not guarantee happiness, you then go through the disillusion phase. Up until the 90’s, women could see the light at the end of the tunnel for equal rights. When you can see the end is near, humans will have happier feelings because they think that nirvana is coming. Once they realize that the grass isn’t greener they become disappointed.
Ponder this time line.
1920 women can vote
1940’s women work during the war
1960 people work to change the world
1970s sees the largest jump in divorce
1980s women truly start working at all levels of corporations
1990s women start seeing equal pay
2000s women reach the light and ask why we aren’t happy now?
It isn’t just about being a single mom or a teenage mom. Teenage pregnancy is still lower than it was in the 70s. It is all about what it means and takes to be happy. People need to realize that no matter what, they control whether they are happy or not.
Women are being asked to grow up and be adults. They are JUST starting to be held accountable. Yet, whenever there is a problem they still fall back onto blaming any available man – as they have always done historically. The downward trend in happiness is related to the fact that they were always sheltered and taken care of by their men in the past. Men are beginning to say, “hey, open your own door, lift your own load, pay your own way, you are equal to me”.
Careful what you ask for, women. You might just get it.
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If studied, I bet there would be a inverse correlation between the decline in the happiness quotient and the increase in numbers of single moms, unwed moms, and teen moms.