What Women Say They Want In Life

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Experts in the happiness-studies field tell us that being married correlates strongly with being happy, while having children does not. (Be sure to mention this to your kids the next time they misbehave.) However, this has not dissuaded American women from wishing to be mothers. In a poll commissioned by Marie Claire and fielded by Gallup, 37 percent of women said that having children is “extremely important” to them, with another 41 percent saying it’s “very important.”

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