Two charts provide information about general feelings of happiness in life. One compares parents’ levels of joy affected by the children’s different ages. Another look at situations that people think might make them happy and compare these across age groups.
The trend in married couples having children below 18 and childless is similar at 44 percent and 43 percent of happiness, respectively. However, this figure differs slightly from the children out of 18 ratings at 41 percent.
Conversely, married people would be happier than single or single parents at all age stages. The figures for the former are beyond around 40 percent, but the latter’s solely approximately 20 percent, it nearly doubled for the period from the teenagers. Nevertheless, except for the oldest age group, unmarried people aged 65 and over are more likely to be happy than others at 34 percent.
Overall, it seems that parents are most happy when their children are under 18 and most concerned about them at 18-plus. For unmarried people, unhappiness overweights their happiness ratings.