Brett Williams's Blog – April 2009 Archive (1)

I was sad to see the article on Hitched about how kids negatively effect marriage. A study released last week showed that for 90% of couples their level of marital satisfaction dropped once they had children. John Gottman, from the University of Washington, reported that the divorce rate spikes for couples just after the birth of their first child.



So what's the deal? Isn't having children one of the reasons why we got married? But here the research is showing us that having children… Continue