考研According to several studies concluding that parents are less happy than childless couples, single parents are the least happy of all.

根据几项研究得出的结论，父母比没有孩子的夫妇更不幸福，单亲父母是最不幸福的。

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六级It started as a "mama and papa operation", and the childless Wallaces always considered employees to be part of their family.

它开始时是一个“爸爸妈妈的行动”，没有孩子的华莱士总是把员工视为家庭的一部分。

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考研Unhappy parents rarely are provoked to wonder if they shouldn’t have had kids, but unhappy childless folks are bothered with the message that children are the single most important thing in the world: obviously their misery must be a direct result of the gaping baby-size holes in their lives.

不幸的父母很少会被激怒去怀疑他们是否应该生孩子，但不幸的无子女的人们却被这样一个信息所困扰：孩子是世界上最重要的东西：显然，他们的痛苦一定是他们生活中婴儿大小的巨大洞的直接结果。

2011年考研阅读原文

考研It doesn't seem quite fair, then, to compare the regrets of parents to the regrets of the childless.

因此，将父母的遗憾与无子女的遗憾相比较似乎并不公平。

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考研Unhappy parents rarely are provoked to wonder if they shouldn't have had kids, but unhappy childless folks are bothered with the message that children are the single most important thing in the world: obviously their misery must be a direct result of the

不幸的父母很少会被激怒去怀疑他们是否不应该生孩子，但是不幸的无子女的人们却被这样一个信息所困扰：孩子是世界上最重要的东西：显然，他们的痛苦一定是孩子的直接结果

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