[gamerates]

What happened to Iceland? Haven't they been the current rage recently as far as the "happiest" country on earth?

There is actually a really interesting article about why Iceland ranked so high that makes some nice comments about the evolving family structure:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/may/18/iceland

"Highest birth rate in Europe + highest divorce rate + highest percentage of women working outside the home = the best country in the world in which to live. There has to be something wrong with this equation. Put those three factors together - loads of children, broken homes, absent mothers - and what you have, surely, is a recipe for misery and social chaos. But no. Iceland, the block of sub-Arctic lava to which these statistics apply, tops the latest table of the United Nations Development Programme's (UNDP) Human Development Index rankings, meaning that as a society and as an economy - in terms of wealth, health and education - they are champions of the world."