"Stumbling on Happiness"

So I just finished reading the pages in "Stumbling on Happiness" and the thing I was most surprised about was the graph. The graph (on page 243) shows that parents are most happy before they have children, and after their children leave home. The scales flicker in between those two points, but the are highest at those two. One thing that did not surprised me was that every one of the study's graphs went up from children who are 5 to children who are 10. I think that is understandable because the children are becoming less dependent on the parents and are learning to be at school and by themselves more. Surprisingly, every graph went way down for teenagers 12-16, and that is because of the difficulty that most teens have with their parents.
I found the excerpt really interesting because of the way it shows how people lie in the "belief game" example. Although people want to be honest, the article says, they have to lie and say that their happiness is in their children so they aren't to be blamed for "hating" (using that word lightly) their own children. Overall, I thought the article was interesting.