IT'S TIME MAGAZINE SO YOU KNOW IT'S STUPID: Of course non-parents are happier than parents.

Having children is an open invitation to the universe to visit misery upon you. Suddenly, a formerly carefree human who has just about figured out how to meet his or her basic needs has to provide for the needs of another human, who is (a) completely dependent (b) apparently intent on self-destruction and (c) incapable of expressing what those needs are — or anything resembling gratitude. And that's just when they're teenagers.

People who have children are pouring much of their emotional capital — and capital capital — into an investment fund they cannot control, nor withdraw from. If that fund goes belly-up, it takes their happiness with it. Their well-being is permanently under existential threat. As is their wealth. And their sanity.

Obviously written by a non-parent. As Instapundit noted, there are many (including my wife and I) whose biggest regret is that we didn't have more children.