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• Having Kids Ruins Marriage

  Marriage, as many studies have shown, go a long way to increasing a person's happiness and longevity.  Just as long as you don't have kids. This recent study finds that people who have children experience a significant unhappiness in their marriage during the child rearing years. Children actually do make couples happier—before they arrive. Pregnant or planning for pregnancy couples get an upswing in  happiness, but that tanks once junior arrives on the scene. Married couples, should their unions survive the unholy process of childrearing, go back to being totally blissful once the kids leave the house. When is happiness at it's lowest point?... Read More... Posted May 13 2008, 09:00 AM by Cole Gamble with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: kids, birth, marriage, Harvard, study, singles, empty nest, child rearing, adolescence, unhappy, Ruin

• Empty Nest Syndrome Strikes Some Parents Early

  Sarah Ebner experienced Empty Nest Syndrome when her son was only 2 1/2.  According to some experts it is possible to experience some version of Empty Nest Syndrome (the experience of loss and grief after a child leaves home) at previously unrecognized phases of development such as your youngest leaving for preschool, or beginning Kindergarten...   Read More... Posted Feb 23 2008, 02:00 PM by Rachael Brownell (Redsy) with | with no comments Filed under: grief, empty nest, kindergart, empty nest syndrome, loss

• Helicopter Parents Make Boomerang Kids

  A generation of Helicopter Parents has in turn raised a generation of Boomerang Kids whose career paths follow a wide arcing curve that is ultimately leading them back to their point of origin; their parent’s homes.   Read More... Posted Feb 07 2008, 10:30 AM by makeitadouble with | with no comments Filed under: helicopter parenting, Boomerang kids, empty nest, get out, slingshot

• Don't Rent Out That Bedroom Yet: Kids Not Growing Up as Fast

  What's the very next thing a good and concerned parent does right after submitting applications for the preschool wait list? Why, planning  empty-nest vacations in the Caribbean, of course! Seriously, when you gaze out into the nebulous Land of the Future, don't you see it paved with a convertible  that will eventually replace that minivan? And theater tickets, and days when you no longer have to change diapers/make school lunches/wipe noses/wipe butts? Because the kids are all off on their own? Read More... Posted Sep 19 2007, 08:06 AM by Karen Murphy with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: kids, families, ids who don't grow up, empty nest, adult babies