Interviewing Jenet Erickson: Women’s Well-Being & Happiness
October 8, 2025
The Institute for Family Studies and the Wheatley Institute released the groundbreaking survey by Jean M. Twenge, Jenet Erickson, Wendy Wang, and Brad Wilcox called “In Pursuit: Marriage, Motherhood, and Women’s Well-Being.” You can read the survey’s summary findings here: In Pursuit: Marriage, Motherhood, and Women’s Well-Being. I shared initial thoughts about the survey here: Married Mothers Are Happiest a New Study Concludes.
The survey found that more married women with children report being ‘very happy’ than any other participant group. Unmarried women with children were the next happiest group. Married without children were next, and unmarried women without children reported being ‘very happy’ at the lowest percentage.
