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Saturday, February 11, 2006

The joys of family life.

What children, the point of it all, bring us...
Depression may be lifelong parent trap

[A new study] finds parents have significantly higher levels of depression than adults who do not have children. Even more surprising, the symptoms of depression do not go away when the kids grow up and move out of the house...

...there is no type of parent that reports less depression than non-parents...
[FSU].
Well, already there, so how to make the most of the situation now?

Divorce?
A judge has ordered a soon-to-be divorced couple to live unhappily ever after in the Borough Park home they shared for 18 years - by having a wall built smack dab in the middle of their dining room...

Simon Taub was granted permission during divorce proceedings in August to divide the home with sheetrock walls, so he wouldn't have to relinquish it to wife, Chana Taub ... "I don't wish this on anybody," said Chana...
[NYDN]
Stay married forever?
Couple celebrate with 50-year-old tinned chicken

A Manchester couple celebrated 50 years of marriage by eating a tin of chicken they were given on their wedding day...
[Ananova]
Yeah, that's what I'll be doing after paying to send three kids through college.

Google searches bringing people to this site aren't encouraging...
"Husband chooses jail to escape nagging wife"
What to do???

Get intimate with a live chicken?

A retired nurse saved her brother's chicken, Boo Boo, by administering mouth-to-beak resuscitation last week after the fowl was found floating face down in the family's pond...

"I breathed into its beak, and its dadgum eyes popped open," Morris said... [CNN]


They look happy, don't they?