Back in the crazy days when I had three children under about 5 or 6 the Daily Mail used to call me frequently for quotes on stories. The Mail was the one last socially conservative papers in Britain, lovers of the stay at home mum, not so hot on the working mother. They even put me on the front page when I had an argument on the landline with the then Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg over child benefit.
So the fact that the Daily Mail ran with the headline: “Having children DOESN’T make you happy: Becoming a parent provides no boost to wellbeing, study claims – but it does ruin your relationship” is a sign of the times.
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