Pollsters asked kids from 13 to 24 and open-ended question: What makes you happy?
Top answer:
Spending time with family was the top answer to that open-ended question, according to an extensive survey — more than 100 questions asked of 1,280 people ages 13-24 — conducted by The Associated Press and MTV on the nature of happiness among America’s young people.
Next was spending time with friends, followed by time with a significant other. And even better for parents: Nearly three-quarters of young people say their relationship with their parents makes them happy.
Let’s take a closer look at this next finding:
the poll shows whites to be happier, across economic categories, than blacks and Hispanics. A lot of young people feel stress, particularly those from the middle class, and females more than males.
Before you go spouting off that blacks and Latinos have less money, so that is why they are less happy, read this:
You might think money would be clearly tied to a general sense of happiness. But almost no one said “money” when asked what makes them happy, though people with the highest family incomes are generally happier with life.
Turns out, money is not the key to happiness. So why would black and Latinos be less happy than whites? Perhaps it has something to do with family, since it is the number one answer in this poll:
Black and Latino families have statistically fewer two parent families. In spite of what the radical feminists want you to believe, fathers are important too. There could be some correlation between the happiness level and the lack of fathers in the family.
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