Recent studies are challenging media narratives that married people — especially women — with children are less happy than people who are single or childless.
Four researchers — Jean Twenge, Jenet Erickson, Wendy Wang, and Brad Wilcox — released their study on the topic in August, through the Institute for Family Studies and the Wheatley Institute.
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