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 people talking like the suggestion that child rearing is anything less than a completely fulfilling, 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 very things that in the moment dampen our moods can later be sources of intense gratification and delight.”

    The magazine cover showing an attractive mother holding a cute baby is hardly the only Madonna-and-child image on newsstands this week. There are also stories about 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 celebrity mom, or mom-to-be, smiling on the newsstands.

    In a society that so persistently celebrates procreation, is it any wonder that admitting you regret having children is equivalent to admitting you support kitten-killing? It doesn’t seem quite fair, then, to compare the regrets of parents to the regrets of the childless. 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.

    Of course, the image of parenthood that celebrity magazines like Us Weekly and People present is hugely unrealistic, especially when the parents are single mothers like Bullock. According to several studies concluding that parents are less happy than childless couples, single parents are the least happy of all. No shock there, considering how much work it is to raise a kid without a partner to lean on; yet to hear Sandra and Britney tell it, raising a kid on their “own” (read: with round-the-clock help) is a piece of cake.

    It’s hard to imagine that many people are dumb enough to want children just because Reese and Angelina make it look so glamorous: most adults understand that a baby is not a haircut. But it’s interesting to wonder if the images we see every week of stress-free, happiness-enhancing parenthood aren’t in some small, subconscious way contributing to our own dissatisfactions with the actual experience, in the same way that a small part of us hoped getting “the Rachel” might make us look just a little bit like Jennifer Aniston.

答案精析：根据题干定位至原文最后一段。该段指出大多数成年人都知道生孩子不像剪头发那么简单，但是我们每周看到的无忧无虑、幸福迷人的父母形象会以small, subconscious way（微小、潜意识的方式）加剧我们对真实育儿体验的不满，可见明星妈妈确实影响我们的育儿态度，故B选项为正确答案。

错项排除：A选项是根据原文中glamorous设置的干扰项，原文只是提到明星妈妈使生儿育女看起来很有魅力，并未提到生儿育女对明星妈妈的魅力有何作用，故A选项错误。由原文可知，加剧我们不满的是杂志上明星们无忧无虑的父母形象，并非生儿育女，C选项属于张冠李戴，故错误。D选项在原文并未提及，故错误。

长难句分析：But it’s interesting to wonder if the images we see every week of stress-free, happiness-enhancing parenthood aren’t in some small, subconscious way contributing to our own dissatisfactions with the actual experience, in the same way that a small part of us hoped getting “the Rachel” might make us look just a little bit like Jennifer Aniston.

本句主干是But it’s interesting to wonder if…，是主系表结构，使用了it作形式主语，不定式to wonder if…为真正主语。if引导的从句是wonder的宾语从句，其主干是the images aren’t contributing to our own dissatisfactions，其中we see everyday是省略引导词的定语从句，修饰images；of… parenthood是介词短语作后置定语修饰images；in some small conscious way是方式状语修饰contributing to。in the same way是方式状语，也是其后that引导的定语从句的先行词；getting… Aniston是宾语从句作hope的宾语。

句意为：想想这点确实有趣：我们每周看到的毫无压力、幸福迷人的父母形象是否在以某种不明显的、潜意识的方式加剧我们对实际育儿体验的不满呢？就像我们中的少数人希望模仿瑞秋就可以使自己看起来有一点儿像詹妮弗·安妮丝顿。