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Bring Up the Kid’s Happy Feeling It’s no surprise that Jennifer Senior’s insightful, provocative magazine cover story, "I Lo
Bring Up the Kid’s Happy Feeling It’s no surprise that Jennifer Senior’s insightful, provocative magazine cover story, "I Lo
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Bring Up the Kid’s Happy Feeling
It’s no surprise that Jennifer Senior’s insightful, provocative magazine cover story, "I Love My Children, I Hate My Life" is arousing much chatter—nothing gets people talking like the suggestion that child rearing is anything less than a completely fulfilling, life-enriching experience. Rather than concluding that children make parents either happy or miserable, Senior suggests we need to redefine happiness: instead of thinking of it as something that can be measured by moment-to-moment joy, we should consider being happy as a past-tense condition. Even though the day-to-day experience of raising kids can be soul-crushingly hard, Senior writes that "the very things that in the moment dampen our moods can later be sources of intense gratification and delight."
The magazine cover showing an attractive mother holding a cute baby is hardly the only Madonna-and-child image on newsstands this week. There are also stories about newly adoptive—and newly single—mom Sandra Bullock, as well as the usual "Jennifer Aniston is pregnant" news. Practically every week features at least one celebrity mom, or mom-to-be, smiling on the newsstands.
In a society that so persistently celebrates procreation, is it any wonder that admitting you regret having children is equivalent to admitting you support kitten-killing? It doesn’t seem quite fair, then, to compare the regrets of parents to the regrets of the chidless. Unhappy parents rarely are provoked to wonder if they shouldn’t have had kids, but unhappy childless folks are bothered with the message that children are the single most important thing in the world: obviously their misery must be a direct result of the gaping baby-size holes in their lives.
Of course, the image of parenthood that celebrity magazines like US Weekly and People present is hugely unrealistic, especially when the parents are single mothers like Bullock. According to several studies concluding that parents are less happy than childless couples, single parents are the least happy of all. No shock there, considering how much work it is to raise a kid without a partner to lean on; yet to hear Sandra and Britney 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 are dumb enough to want children just because Reese and Angelina make it look so glamorous : most adults understand that a baby is not a haircut. But it’s interesting to wonder if the images we see every week of stress-free, happiness-enhancing parenthood aren’t in some small, subconscious way contributing to our own dissatisfactions with the actual experiene, in the same way that a small part of us hoped getting "the Rachel" might make us look just a little bit like Jennifer Aniston.
We learn from Paragraph 2 that______.
选项
A、celebrity moms are a permanent source for gossip
B、single mothers with babies deserve greater attention
C、news about pregnant celebrities is entertaining
D、having children is highly valued by the public
答案
D
解析
推理判断题。直接定位至第二段。第二段首先指出不仅麦当娜和孩子出现在杂志封面上,还有单身妈妈桑德拉·布洛克的故事和詹妮弗·安妮斯顿怀孕的消息。并指出,在报摊杂志封面上每个星期至少会有一个名人妈妈或准妈妈微笑的.特写。由此推断,有孩子的名人因孩子而受到公众的重视,故[D]与之相符。[A]“名人妈妈是八卦的固定来源”是过度推断,文中并没有提及gossip。第二段提到单身妈妈桑德拉·布洛克,但没有涉及单身妈妈的其他方面,故[B]“有孩子的单身妈妈需要更多的关注”没有支撑的依据,应排除。第二段只举了詹妮弗·安妮斯顿怀孕的例子,并提到杂志特写的焦点在于名人妈妈或者准妈妈,但并没有指出信息的娱乐性,故排除[C]“有关怀孕名人的消息具有娱乐性”。
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