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...those who care less about science-fiction doomsday scenarios than the gnawing sense of dissatisfaction Shyamalan often wrings from his characters, the problems of the central couple are not exactly earth-shaking. They're childless, he's a little exasperated that she's so withdrawn, and she shared an apparently innocent dessert with a colleague who keeps pestering her with cell-phone messages. Wahlberg does all his fretting with a furrowed brow (which has not two but three vertical lines, possibly a new fashion statement for anxiety), while Deschanel bites her lip and rolls her gigantic blue eyes. Neither actor...
AMID AFTERSHOCKS, PARENTS PROTEST In the wake of the May 12 earthquake that killed at least 68,000 people--including an estimated 10,000 children--Beijing has announced that it will relax its strict one-child policy for parents left childless by the disaster. Grieving parents protested in the town of Mianzhu on May 25, as a local official pleaded with them to stop (above). The parents demanded that the government investigate why thousands of schools crumbled in the quake, amid claims that government corruption and shoddy construction left such "tofu dregs" buildings prone to collapse. Powerful aftershocks struck Sichuan...
What happens at 44? Lots of things, but none that can be pinned down as the root cause of unhappiness. It's not anxiety from the kids, for starters. Even among the childless, those in midlife reported lower life satisfaction than the young or old, says study co-author Andrew Oswald, an economics professor at the University of Warwick in Britain. Other things that didn't alter the happiness curve: income, marital status or education. "You can adjust for 100 things and it doesn't go away," Oswald says. He and co-author David Blanchflower, an economist at Dartmouth College...
Federico Carrasco faces the typical demands of a divorced father of two: what to do with his sons every other weekend; what to tell his own mother when she insists it's time he got remarried; how to explain to his childless partner that, for him, two kids are enough. What makes this 40-year-old different from millions of other hard-working Spanish fathers is that his partner is a man. One issue, at least, appears to be resolved: Carrasco says he and Javier Dorca, his boyfriend of eight years, plan to tie the knot next year under Spain...
...understand why no politician wants to get between a childless couple and the doctors who offer an answer to their prayers. This is the longing that burns and scars so deeply that we don't know how to talk about it and so privately that we don't want to try. But as medicine redraws the map of what's possible when it comes to making children, we all have an interest in asking how far we should be allowed...