misery困难

Unhappy parents rarely are provoked to wonder if they shouldn't have had kids, but unhappy childless folks are bothered with the message that children are the single most important thing in the world: obviously their misery must be a direct result of the gaping baby-size holes in their lives.

不幸福的父母很少会被激得去想自己是否本不该生孩子，而不幸福的无子女者却总被这样的说法所困扰：孩子是世界上唯一最重要的东西，显然他们的痛苦必定直接源于生活中缺了孩子而留下的巨大空洞。