by Erica Komisar (@EricaKomisarCSW) In a cultural landscape often inundated with narratives portraying marriage and parenthood as restrictive burdens, a groundbreaking report from The Institute for Family Studies and the Wheatley Institute presents a compelling counter-narrative: married women, surprisingly, report significantly higher levels of happiness than their unmarried counterparts, regardless of whether they have children. This finding directly challenges the prevailing societal view...