{"id":3593,"date":"2006-11-25T13:40:55","date_gmt":"2006-11-25T17:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=3593"},"modified":"2006-11-25T13:41:38","modified_gmt":"2006-11-25T17:41:38","slug":"the-happiest-wives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2006\/11\/the-happiest-wives\/","title":{"rendered":"The Happiest Wives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.happiestwives.org\/\">study<\/a> done by two sociology profs at the University of Virginia, the following are most closely correlated with happiness of wives:<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>A husband\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s emotional engagement.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Fairness.<\/strong><br \/>\nThey write:  &#8220;Women who think that housework (and other family responsibilities) are divided fairly are significantly happier than women who think that their husband does not do his fair share. Note, however, that most wives do not equate fairness with a 50-50 model of equality.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>A breadwinning husband.<\/strong><br \/>\nThey say:  &#8220;American wives, even wives who hold more feminist views about working women and the division of household tasks, are typically happier when their husband earns 68% or more of the household income.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>A commitment to marriage.<\/strong><br \/>\nThey note:  &#8220;Wives who share a strong commitment to the norm of lifelong marriage with their husband\u00e2\u20ac\u201de.g., who both believe that even unhappily married couples should stay together for the sake of their children\u00e2\u20ac\u201dare more likely to have a happy marriage than couples who do not share this commitment to marriage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Staying at home.<\/strong><br \/>\nBy which they mean:  the wife doesn&#8217;t work.  They note that this is particularly true for women with children.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shared religious attendance.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Traditional gender attitudes.<\/strong><br \/>\nTheir comment:  &#8220;Wives who hold more traditional gender attitudes\u00e2\u20ac\u201de.g., who believe that wives should focus more on nurturing\/homemaking and husbands should focus more on breadwinning\u00e2\u20ac\u201dare happier than wives who hold more feminist attitudes.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(The list is in order of importance.  Unfortunately, the full text of the article is not yet available online, so I can&#8217;t comment on the study itself or any methodological blunders they may have made.)<\/p>\n<p>Discuss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a study done by two sociology profs at the University of Virginia, the following are most closely correlated with happiness of wives:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}