Parents experience greater levels of happiness and meaning in life than people who have no children according to a new study. Parents also are happier when they are caring for their children than during their other daily activities the researchers concluded on the basis of review studies conducted in the US and Canada. We are not saying that parenting makes people happy but that parenthood is associated with happiness and meaning explained Sonja Lyubomirsky professor of psychology at the University of California Riverside the journal Psychological Science reports. Contrary to repeated scholarly and media pronouncements people may find solace that parenthood and
