The article named “Having Kids Makes You Happy” by Lorraine Ali from NEWSWEEK on June 28, 2008 is about why couples who have never had kids find life happier than the couples who do have kids. The author found several studies to why this may be the case, she found that it cost around $130,000 to $240,000 to raise a child from birth to 17 years old, not including schooling or future college tuitions. She has also had found that parents are 7 percentage points lower when reporting being happy than couples that never had kids. In a study done on 13,000 Americans, they found that no couple with kids had a better emotional state then the couples without kids. The author has made some valid points into why having kids is counterintuitive for couple’s happiness and satisfaction, but the arguments and
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Some findings, like the study done on 13,000 Americans and the couples with kids not being happier than the couples without kids, seem to be a bit board. The author also didn’t say how the findings were gathered and who was studied, the word “Americans” can be seen as ambiguous because there are a ton of people that fall under that label. The evidence to back up the authors claims and reasons, were also found to be very ambiguous concerning the way they were presented towards the reader, multiple times during the article the author never explains how some of the statistics and studies were conducted. The author mostly just lets readers know where the studies and finding are from but never the details about them. Like who got the information, how the information was gathered, where was this done at, and why was the information collected. Information the all readers should ask when they come across evidence and statistics in articles. This lack of information can lead to a biased, and manipulated studies and writing by the author and her viewpoints to help pursued viewers in believing her claims. The author even states in
Some findings, like the study done on 13,000 Americans and the couples with kids not being happier than the couples without kids, seem to be a bit board. The author also didn’t say how the findings were gathered and who was studied, the word “Americans” can be seen as ambiguous because there are a ton of people that fall under that label. The evidence to back up the authors claims and reasons, were also found to be very ambiguous concerning the way they were presented towards the reader, multiple times during the article the author never explains how some of the statistics and studies were conducted. The author mostly just lets readers know where the studies and finding are from but never the details about them. Like who got the information, how the information was gathered, where was this done at, and why was the information collected. Information the all readers should ask when they come across evidence and statistics in articles. This lack of information can lead to a biased, and manipulated studies and writing by the author and her viewpoints to help pursued viewers in believing her claims. The author even states in