My Family Care, the UK's number one provider of employee ‛backup care' benefits such as Emergency Childcare, has revealed dramatic findings from its annual Working Parents Survey.

Having children improves married peoples' life satisfaction and the more they have, the happier they are. For unmarried individuals, raising children has little or no positive effect on their happiness. These findings1 by Dr. Luis Angeles from the University of Glasgow in the UK have just been published online in Springer's Journal of Happiness Studies.