According to happiness expert Paul Dolan, a professor of behavioral science at the London School of Economics and author of the book Happily Ever After, the secret to being happy--for women, at least--is to stay single and not have children! Seriously!
Dolan found that unmarried women are the happiest among participants in the survey. They are more financially stable, and live longer than their married-with-kids peers.
Don't believe it? There's a New York City woman who recently celebrated her 106th birthday, and when asked the secret to her long life, she replied, "I never got married." LOL!
If you were wondering, for men, marriage makes them happier. He says that men benefit from marriage because they “calm down, take less risks, earn more money at work, and live a little longer.”