From: The Huffington Post
Happy Kids Divorce More: University Of Cambridge Study
The Huffington Post:
You might believe that happy kids stand a better chance of growing up into happy adults.
And for the most part you’d be right–a recent study looking into the effect a happy adolescence has on adult life found that most outcomes are better for happier teens. But a startling fact also emerged: happy teens are more likely to divorce.
Researchers at the University of Cambridge used data from 2,776 teens who participated in a 1946 British birth cohort study. Their teachers rated the children at ages 13 and 15 on whether they exhibited any of four different measures of happiness: “very popular with other children”; “unusually happy and contented”; “makes friends extremely easily”; and “extremely energetic, never tired.”
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