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周五高级阅读： 导言：本篇选自Newsweek 的一篇评论，以 在 上宣扬的“ 的单身母亲”形象为议论的切入 点，意在号召父母建立正确、理性的育儿观。这篇是典型的观点议 ，抓住观点很重要。 It’s no surprise that Jennifer Senior’s insightful, provocative magazine cover story, “I love My Children, I Hate My Life,” is arousing much chatter – nothing gets peo ple talking like the suggestion that child rearing is anything less than a comple y f ulfilling, life-enriching experience. Rather than concluding that children make parents either happy or miserable, Senior suggests we need to redefine happiness: instead of thinking of it as something that can be measured by moment-to-moment joy, we should consider being happy as a past-tense condition. Even though the day-to-day experience of raising kids can be soul-crushingly hard, Senior writes that “the ver y things that in the moment dampen our moods can later be sources of intense gr atification and delight.” The magazine cover showing an attractive mother holding a cute baby is hardly th e only Madonna-and-child image on newsstands this week. There are also stories ab out newly adoptive – and newly single – mom Sandra Bullock, as well as the usual “Jennifer Aniston is pregnant” news. Practically every week features at least one cel ebrity mom, or mom-to-be, smiling on the newsstands. In a society that so persistently celebrates procreation, is it any wonder that ad mitting you regret having children is equivalent to admitting you support kitten-killin g? It doesn’t seem quite fair, then, to compare the regrets of parents to the regrets of the children. Unhappy parents rarely are provoked to wonder if they shouldn’t h ave had kids, but unhappy childless folks are bothered with the message that childr en are the single most important thing in the world: obviously their misery must b e a direct result of the ga baby-size holes in their lives. Of course, the image of parenthood that celebrity ma