The-Conquest-of-Happiness-by-Bertrand-Russell

means have to be content with the absolute
minimum of space. If there are young children, life
in a flat is difficult. There is no room for them to
play, and there is no room for their parents to get
away from their noise. Consequently professional
men tend more and more to live in the suburbs.
This is undoubtedly desirable from the point of
view of the children, but it adds considerably to
the fatigue of the man’s life, and greatly diminishes
the part which he can play in the family.
Such large economic problems, however, it is not
my intention to discuss, since they lie outside the
problem with which we are concerned, namely
what the individual can here and now do to find
happiness. We come nearer to this problem when
we pass to the psychological difficulties which
exist in the present age in the relations of parents
and children. These are really part of the problems
raised by democracy. In old days there were
masters and slaves: the masters decided what was
to be done, and on the whole liked their slaves,
since their slaves ministered to their happiness.