Many studies have found that, when it comes parenting, working partners happen to enjoy different degrees of happiness and they say mothers are happier than fathers.  

·         Does this finding sound reasonable to you?

·         Do you think fathers are really at a disadvantage in terms of happiness?

Working partners and children generate a tough equation, and seeing it in a parenting angle, there are greater evidences to believe that mothers are more blessed in terms of happiness than fathers. This is not to say fathers are left in the lurch.

Motherhood in parenting shoulders the lion’s share of responsibilities. For example,  looking into the finer needs of tender children, keeping their emotional balance, talking and listening to them and giving them company when they are down are the things mothers are know for. Naturally, a working mother is actually taking up all the three mantles - of a professional, a parent and a homemaker - at the same time.

This rare multi-tasking is so tough that at the end of the day she happens to get more rewarding moments. It is a kind of agony leading to ecstasy. For such a mother, it is a kind of marathon which keeps her running all through her life. The degree of happiness such working mothers come to have is a little above the reach of their counterparts’.

Fathers, on the other hand, have got a different level of happiness. The first thing is that their better half will look a much better half than a fulltime mother who happens to be back at home all the time. Secondly, fathers are left with a rare happiness called flexi-parent who, in front of others, is willing to travel the extra mile to help his counterpart do her job happily. There is surely room for happiness because after all it is for their children.

My conclusion is that the finding of the study is not unfounded, but it is unfair to believe that fathers of working families are at a disadvantage in terms of happiness. They are happy in their own ways, if not happier than their partners.

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A jaypeesdoc. 10.10.2013