2011年考研英语(一) 阅读真题 第4篇: Not On Board With Baby |
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"I love My Children, I Hate My Life," is arousing much chatter
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we should consider being happy as a past-tense condition.
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Senior writes that "the very things that in the moment dampen our moods can later be sources of intense gratification and delight."
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instead of thinking of it as something that can be measured by moment-to-moment joy,
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Senior suggests we need to redefine happiness:
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There are also stories about newly adoptive -- and newly single-mom Sandra Bullock, as well as the usual "Jennifer Aniston is pregnant" news.
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Rather than concluding that children make parents either happy or miserable,
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Even though the day-to-day experience of raising kids can be soul-crushingly hard,
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nothing gets people talking like the suggestion that child rearing is anything less than a completely fulfilling, life-enriching experience.
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It's no surprise that Jennifer Senior's insightful, provocative magazine cover story,
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The magazine cover showing an attractive mother holding a cute baby is hardly the only Madonna-and-child image on newsstands this week.
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2011年考研英语(一) 阅读真题 第4篇: Not On Board With Baby |
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It doesn't seem quite fair, then, to compare the regrets of parents to the regrets of the children.
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In a society that so persistently celebrates procreation,
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but unhappy childless folks are bothered with the message that children are the single most important thing in the world:
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Unhappy parents rarely are provoked to wonder if they shouldn't have had kids,
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No shock there, considering how much work it is to raise a kid without a partner to lean on;
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is it any wonder that admitting you regret having children is equivalent to admitting you support kitten-killing?
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obviously their misery must be a direct result of the gaping baby-size holes in their lives.
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According to several studies concluding that parents are less happy than childless couples, single parents are the least happy of all.
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Of course, the image of parenthood that celebrity magazines like US Weekly and People present is hugely unrealistic,
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especially when the parents are single mothers like Bullock.
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Practically every week features at least one celebrity mom, or mom-to-be, smiling on the newsstands.
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2011年考研英语(一) 阅读真题 第4篇: Not On Board With Baby |
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because Reese and Angelina make it look so glamorous: most adults understand that a baby is not a haircut.
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It's hard to imagine that many people are dumb enough to want children just
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yet to hear Sandra and Britney tell it, raising a kid on their "own" (read: with round-the-clock help) is a piece of cake.
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happiness enhancing parenthood aren't in some small, subconscious way contributing to our own dissatisfactions with the actual experience,
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But it's interesting to wonder if the images we see every week of stress-free,
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in the same way that a small part of us hoped getting "the Rachel" might make us look just a little bit like Jennifer Aniston.
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