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4:00PM
NOV 21 2007
Three simple ways to abandon your family
From Psychology Today, marriage is not the key to happiness: Married people are no more happier than singles — though people react strongly to events such as marriage, they return to their personal "set point of happiness" after a certain period of time. Mums behaving badly: Do this, don't do that, everyone, it seems, has something to say on motherhood. In fact, the pressure to be perfect starts well before the birth, with an avalanche of often confusing and judgmental advice. A researcher says Britney and K-Fed doing it all wrong, since child custody battles detrimental to children. What troublemakers can teach us: It's time to question our faith in early-childhood determinism. Manufactured wilderness: A review of A Manufactured Wilderness: Summer Camps and the Shaping of American Youth, 1890-1960 by Abigail A. Van Slyck. A review of Red: The Next Generation of American Writers — Teenage Girls — On What Fires Up their Lives Today by Amy Goldwasser. From The Morning News, here are three simple ways to abandon your family — a guide for deadbeats.
