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It’s no surprise that Jennifer Senior’sinsightful, provocative magazine cover story, “I love My Children, I Hate MyLife,” is arousing much chatter – nothing gets people talking like thesuggestion that child rearing is anything less than a completely fulfilling,life-enriching experience. Rather than concluding that children make parentseither happy or miserable, Senior suggests we need to redefine happiness:instead of thinking of it as something that can be measured by moment-to-momentjoy, we should consider being happy as a past-tense condition. Even though theday-to-day experience of raising kids can be soul-crushingly hard, Seniorwrites that “the very things that in the moment dampen our moods can later besources of intense gratification and delight.”
The magazine cover showing an attractivemother holding a cute baby is hardly the only Madonna-and-child image onnewsstands this week. There are also stories about newly adoptive – and newlysingle – mom Sandra Bullock, as well as the usual “Jennifer Aniston ispregnant” news. Practically every week features at least one celebrity mom, ormom-to-be, smiling on the newsstands.
In a society that so persistentlycelebrates procreation, is it any wonder that admitting you regret havingchildren is equivalent to admitting you support kitten-killing It doesn’tseem quite fair, then, to compare the regrets of parents to the regrets of thechildren. Unhappy parents rarely are provoked to wonder if they shouldn’t havehad kids, but unhappy childless folks are bothered with the message thatchildren are the single most important thing in the world: obviously theirmisery must be a direct result of the gaping baby-size holes in their lives.
Of course, the image of parenthood thatcelebrity magazines like Us Weekly and People present is hugely unrealistic,especially when the parents are single mothers like Bullock. According toseveral studies concluding that parents are less happy than childless couples,single parents are the least happy of all. No shock there, considering how muchwork it is to raise a kid without a partner to lean on; yet to hear Sandra andBritney tell it, raising a kid on their “own” (read: with round-the-clock help)is a piece of cake.
It’s hard to imagine that many people aredumb enough to want children just because Reese and Angelina make it look soglamorous: most adults understand that a baby is not a haircut. But it’sinteresting to wonder if the images we see every week of stress-free,happiness-enhancing parenthood aren’t in some small, subconscious waycontributing to our own dissatisfactions with the actual experience, in thesame way that a small part of us hoped getting “ the Rachel” might make us lookjust a little bit like Jennifer Aniston.Jennifer Senior suggests in her articlethat raising a child can bring
A.temporary delight
B.enjoyment in progress
C.happiness in retrospect
D.lasting reward
WILL the European Union make itThe question would have sounded outlandish not long ago. Now even the project’s greatest cheerleaders talk of a continent facing a “Bermuda triangle” of debt, demographic decline and lower growth.
As well as those chronic problems, the EU faces an acute crisis in its economic core, the 16 countries that use the single currency. Markets have lost faith that the euro zone’s economies, weaker or stronger, will one day converge thanks to the discipline of sharing a single currency, which denies uncompetitive stragglers the quick fix of devaluation.
Yet the debate about how to save Europe’s single currency from disintegration is stuck. It is stuck because the euro zone’s dominant powers, France and Germany, agree on the need for greater harmonisation within the euro zone, but disagree about what to harmonise.
Germany thinks the euro must be saved by stricter rules on borrowing, spending and competitiveness, backed by quasi-automatic sanctions for governments that stray. These might include threats to freeze EU funds for poorer regions and EU mega-projects, and even the suspension of a country’s voting rights in EU ministerial councils. It insists that economic co-ordination should involve all 27 members of the EU club, among whom there is a small majority for free-market liberalism and economic rigour; in the inner core alone, Germany fears, a small majority favour French dirigisme.
A “southern” camp headed by France wants something different: “European economic government” within an inner core of euro-zone members. Translated, that means politicians meddling in monetary policy and a system of redistribution from richer to poorer members, via cheaper borrowing for governments through common Eurobonds or outright fiscal transfers. Finally, figures close to the French government have murmured, euro-zone members should agree to some fiscal and social harmonisation: eg, curbing competition in corporate-tax rates or labour costs.
It is too soon to write off the EU. It remains the world’s largest trading block. At its best, the European project is remarkably liberal: built around a single market of 27 rich and poor countries, its internal borders are far more porous to goods, capital and labour than any comparable trading area. It is an ambitious attempt to blunt the sharpest edges of globalisation, and make capitalism benign.
The EU is faced with to many problems that
A it has more or less lost faith in markets
B even its supporters begin to fell concerned
C some of its member countries plan to X curo
D it intends to deny the possibility of devaluation
A.invited
B. appointed
C. allowed
D. forced
A.manageable
B. defendable
C. vulnerable
D. invisible
A.skepticism
B. tolerance
C. indifference
D. enthusiasm
A.pided
B. disappointed
C. protected
D. united
A.on
B. after
C. beyond
D. across
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