Regrets And Happiness

Jennifer Senior's NyMag article has revived the never-ending debate about children and happiness. KJ Dell'Antonia, mother of four, adds her two cents:

Tom Gilovich, a psychologist at Cornell famous for a study showing thatpeople regret things they haven't done more than things they have, asks"Should you value moment-to-moment happiness more than retrospectiveevaluations of your life?" He says he doesn't know the answer, butmaybe the question is the answer. If you can keep a sense of the...