Are Women with Kids Happier?

B2 – Upper Intermediate

These days, it’s uncommon to hear women choosing to have children over a profession due to the daily tiredness that comes with it. However, a recent survey may refute this assertion.

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Vocabulary Questions:

  1. What does “to go out of the window” mean?  “That whole myth of kind of having it all seems to have gone out of the window.” Use this idiom in a sentence and give a synonym.
  2. What is the meaning of “zeitgeist”? “I mean that is actually a very zeitgeist conversation to be having right at this moment when we’re hearing about the renewal of the idea of having families.” Use this word to make your own sentence.
  3. What does “socially ostracized” mean?  “This idea that they’re going to be socially ostracized. It’s completely untrue.” Use this phrase in a sentence and give a synonym.

Discussion Questions:

  1. Do you think having kids makes women happier? Share your insights.
  2. How do unfavorable stereotypes of women who have children affect your desire to have children?
  3. Do you believe that enforcing regulations leads to a better parenting experience? Share your thoughts or personal experience.
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2 replies on “Are Women with Kids Happier?”

Vocabulary Questions:
1. I´m afraid of having a children and see all the life I´ve bult going out to the window. Falling apart, draining, disappiear

2. New tecnologies as IA and socia media are the zeitgeist since 2022

3. Not having children makes you feel obstratized some times arround your same age group. Marginalized, excluded, neglected

Discussion Questions:

1. I think there is not scientific answer because it´s difficult to control the whole variables influencing happines, as the kind of parents, culture, vàlues, what it means by happpines for each person…and those are subjective factors that are not easy to measure. For this reason I´m more inclined to say that no, having a children doesn´t make women happier.

2. I feel preasure to have children because even all woman says negative things about motherhood, there is still some myths about having a children as the main purpose of a woman or stereotypes of mothers as virgins, saints, pure and kind, loving vcaring, attentive…and makes me feel not prepare because i dont identified my self like that.

3. Definetly no. Enforce children to accomplish stricto norms can be very dangerous for their mental Health. Of course going to the opposite side is not the best way of riseing childs. I think parents don´t like neither enjoy being stricto. Find a balancing point between enforcing and being permisive is the difficult way and also de more fullfilling of being parents.

Welcome to the PE Blog! Nicely done expressing your thoughts about this topic.

Take a look at how to write these sentences to sound more natural:

… and makes me feel not prepare because i dont identified my self like that.

This makes me feel like I’m not prepared because I don’t identify myself like that.

I think parents don´t like neither enjoy being stricto.

I think parents don´t enjoy being strict either.

Also be mindful with the spelling these words: pressure, definitely, raising, fulfilling, strict, permissive, happiness

Here’s to more entries from you!

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