Title: Are There Good Reasons for Being a Farmer? | AHA
Headings: Are There Good Reasons for Being a Farmer?
Are There Good Reasons for Being a Farmer?
Do farmers eat better?
Do farmers have better health?
Do farmers enjoy their work more?
Is family life better on the farm?
Do farmers earn less than city folk?

Content: There, the whole day long, one’s life is a perfect feast.” Is family life better on the farm? Some sociologists say that the farmer tends to have a happier home life than the city man. As a rule, farming is a family enterprise. The husband, wife, and children divide the labor, each doing what his or her strength and ability permit. By such teamwork, the family is knit into a tight and harmonious unit. Because they work together as well as live together, farm families are generally more stable than urban families. This assertion is borne out by 1930 census figures which show that 19 per cent of family groups in cities were broken as against 14.7 per cent in villages and only 8.1 per cent on farms. According to the farming enthusiasts, family life and all it stands for seem to be more appreciated in rural than in urban communities, where people in normal times do not stay at home so much and outside distractions make the members of some families almost strangers to each other. In answer to this, the city enthusiasts say that some farmers have more children than they can suitably provide for, and that the reason farm families tend to be more stable than urban families is that they don’t know how to get away from each other.