SOCL 2505 Chapter : SOCL 2505 Chapter 12 Notes
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Children and happiness: rearing children may indeed be life"s greatest mixed blessing, there is con icting information about the effects of children on individual and couple happiness. Children add to individual happiness in cohabiting or marital relationships: single parents are least happy. Marital satisfaction declines for all but occurs more suddenly for parents after the birth of rst child. Table 12. 1- strengths of happy couples versus unhappy couples regarding. Table 12. 2- top five parenting issues for couples. The challenge of parenthood: parenthood is about the only job that doesn"t require some special kind of education, society bene ts from parent"s successes but also suffers from their mistakes. Adults with problems often had problems as children, and many times they pass their problems on to the next generation. Children will turn out well if they have good parents. Parenting is not the only factor in development. Children can be sel sh, destructive, and extremely active.
