"A few generations ago, people weren’t stopping to contemplate whether having a child would make them happy."

"Having children was simply what you did. And we are lucky, today, to have choices about these matters. But the abundance of choices — whether to have kids, when, how many — may be one of the reasons parents are less happy."

Another manifestation of that trendy liberal theme: Choice won't make you happy.

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This post makes an interesting pairing with the 10:13 post, which noted that suddenly and strangely:

Liberals worry about constitutional rights getting in the way of legislation, and conservatives have cozied up to the notion of unwritten rights. For that to happen, everyone has to stop focusing on the right of privacy.