http://www.iblog.co.uk/2008/02/14/house-husband-happiness/ (so you don't have to) Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:26:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 http://www.iblog.co.uk/2008/02/14/house-husband-happiness/#comment-51942 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:53:40 +0000 http://www.iblog.co.uk/2008/02/14/house-husband-happiness/#comment-51942 I think you have to be a little more skeptical of "studies" since they are a myriad of them and you can pretty much find anyone that supports your own biases and prejudices/preferences. Particularly in the so-called "social sciences" is it true that persons with a certrain political viewpoint use these "studies" to advance their own agendas. As an example, what would your reaction have been to a study showing that women who stay home are happier? In certain quarters there would be outrage. I think you have to very careful about insisting that there is only one way to be happy. Particularly when you are insisting that that one way only applies to one gender. At any rate perhaps we have spent far too much time describing how miserable women have been while restricted to the home, to now turn around and say how happy men are under the same restriction. I think you have to be a little more skeptical of “studies” since they are a myriad of them and you can pretty much find anyone that supports your own biases and prejudices/preferences. Particularly in the so-called “social sciences” is it true that persons with a certrain political viewpoint use these “studies” to advance their own agendas. As an example, what would your reaction have been to a study showing that women who stay home are happier? In certain quarters there would be outrage. I think you have to very careful about insisting that there is only one way to be happy. Particularly when you are insisting that that one way only applies to one gender. At any rate perhaps we have spent far too much time describing how miserable women have been while restricted to the home, to now turn around and say how happy men are under the same restriction.

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