Hmmm. It appears that there's been a study to show that children aren't key to women's happiness. All those years that my gran used to tell me that the only way that I'd be happy is to find a man, get married and have children wasn't all that wise after all.

The strange thing is that I find myself thinking about having children all the time. I mean it's part of the human biology, no? The urge to procreate and further the species. And, while I wouldn't mind having someone to share my life with and have children with, I sometimes cannot fathom the idea of bringing children into this troubled world. There are always wars (even though we have these days to remember the fallen and swear never to have it happen again) or the planet has been polluted and the technological "advances" are creating havoc with the delicate species that also inhabit it.

I wonder what the parameters for the study that is documented in the story above. How do we measure this happiness and is this something that makes all of those who don't have kids feel better. It's funny because the other day I read an article about how women don't need to be married to be happy and that any thought that singles are "losers" was not to be believed. It certainly made me feel better but I wondered - again - whether it was just a ploy to make single women feel better about the fact that they weren't.

Any thoughts?