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According to a new study, researchers say that our family is kind of happy. Not as happy as a family with two girls or a family with a boy and a girl, but much more happy than my friend who has four girls. It has nothing to do about situational issues, personality types or how much coffee I’ve had in the morning. It has everything to do with the number of children I have and their gender.
The study says that families with two girls are happier. Families with four girls? Not so happy.
The breakdown lists those two-girl families on top and then stumbles through a slew of variation, usually listing any combination of all girls before any combination of all boys -- except for the doomed four girl family.
- 1.Two girls
- 2.One boy and one girl
- 3.Two boys
- 4.Three girls
- 5.Three boys
- 6.Four boys
- 7.Two girls and one boy
- 8.Two boys and one girl
- 9.Three boys and one girl
- 10.Three girls and one boy
- 11.Two boys and two girls
- 12.Four girls
They list a whole mess of reasons as to why the families with two girls have an easier time than families with four girls.
| Benefits of Having Two Girls | Negatives of Having Four Girls |
|---|---|
| Rarely noisy | Fight and argue all the time |
| Help around the house | Difficult to reason with |
| Very few fights and arguments | Ignore and dislike each other |
| Quite easy to reason with | Bedtime routine is a nightmare |
| Play together nicely | Create a lot of noise around the house |
| Rarely ignore each other | Rarely confide in you |
| They confide in you | Hard to deal with when ill |
| Very well behaved | Takes ages getting ready for school |
| Rarely try to wind each other up | Had to buy a bigger house and car |
| Really like each other | Hard to cope with on a daily basis |
Some of those points seem kind of common sense and obvious to me. More children? Louder house! Less children? Quieter house! Four girls take a long time to get ready for school? No way! But some of it is interesting in ways that this research doesn’t quite address.
While I was in a one-girl/one-boy household, I did not confide in my parents. Does that mean four girls confide even less? Or, is it really based on parenting style, personality types of children and parents alike and an any-given-day type thing? I don’t know. I’d kind of like to find out if more children equates to less open and honest communication and, if so, how do we fix it. And if it doesn't, what does and what do we do about it? I think that would be a more beneficial study than saying, “Yep, families with four children sure are stressed.” Duh.
Some of the comparisons and points made me laugh. I won’t lie; our house -- which has two boys living under the roof -- is loud. Apparently two girl households are magically quieter, though after reading some buzz on Facebook, I am not actually believing that is 100% true. I’d also like to point out that my boys help out around the house (if you don’t count their tragically messy playroom), rarely ignore each other, confide in me (tattle-tails who even tell on themselves), really are quite well behaved and, yes, actually like each other. Most
