…survey says

Dear me,
If we knew, what we know, when we knew it, would having children even be an option? I’m doing a comparative analysis of parental headache and heartache vs. happiness payoff and with the day that I’ve had today, I’m losing the debate … T

On my last spin through the web, I was trapped by an old survey[1] that found that seventy percent of Americans wish they had never become parents. It was in response to the query, “If you had it to do over, would you?”

I was shocked! In a nation as diverse as America, I was floored! I'm amazed that an entire nation’s worst parenting moments could be coordinated with such precision![2]

But, other that that initial misgiving, the results didn’t surprise me. Surveys conducted early in the summer are often skewed by parents faced with the spine-chilling dread of coordinating their children’s upcoming summer activities. I am certain that the survey was further biased by being conducted in the ‘70’s. Parenting during that decade must have presented a particular paradox.

We may never know the real reasons behind those results, because it seems that by October of that same year, ninety-five percent of parents had responded in reverse to the same survey. The simple explanation for this spans the decades: Of course the entire nation, even now, heaves a universal sigh of relief once school starts.

To me,
This survey makes abundantly clear the ambiguous nature of this job and the unvarying constancy of those persons who adapt to this challenge. It solidly expresses the inconsistencies of parenting.

And if this double-spoken clarification doesn’t confound you, you should look into running for political office. T.

Reality Bite: If politicians don’t present Evolutionists with certain evidence of human beings devolving, I don’t know who does.

[1] June 1976 Ann Landers—two seconds research—love that internet.

[2] This was prior to the computerized survey skewing of American Idol.