Mothers: Save Your Marriage by Spending More Time with Your Spouse and Your Friends

For quite a while, studies have shown that marital bliss hits a nosedive with the arrival of children. It seems that the flaw in these studies has been that they did not distinguish accidental parents from intentional parents. Nor did the studies seem to take into account whether the parents were in agreement on their family roles and parenting styles or not.

As reported in a recent New York Times op-ed,"Till Children Do Us Part" new study out of the University of California at Berkeley shows that with the arrival of children marital happiness can actually increase, particularly if the parents continue to spend time together renewing their relationship. Marital happiness is also aided by parents who are regularly engaged with friends and family members.


It seems that kids benefit most from happy parents---not unhappy ones who are stressed out and cranky because they trying to make it to third activity that Saturday afternoon.