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from the so-I-didn't-have-to-get-married??? dept.
a new study published in AJPH indicates that adults who are cohabitating have midlife health outcomes that are similar to adults in formal marriages. So in terms of the benefits specific to marriage, we can probably strike "longer, healthier life" from the list.
The study in question used 10,000 subjects from the British national Child Development Study, a birth cohort study that includes all people born in Britain during one week in March 1958. Participants were able to select their partnership status as married, cohabitating, or single. Health was measured using blood and inflammatory biomarkers, as well as respiratory capacity. The researchers controlled for previous socioeconomic status, previous health status, educational attainment, income, employment, and other demographic variables.
The study's results varied by gender. Among men, those who had never married/cohabitated displayed poorer overall health than men who were married during the observation period. By contrast, not marrying or cohabitating had less of a detrimental effect on women than on men. For women, the timing of the marriage mattered. Those who were married in their late 20s or early 30s had the overall best health, beating out both women who had married in their early 20s and women were never married/cohabitating.
Does co-habitating with cats or dogs count?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 13 2015, @12:06AM
Marriage wouldn't fix that issue, because it's just some garbage social ritual that lots of people believe is magic. Take someone who abuses their partner and put them in a marriage and it will almost certainly continue.
(Score: 2) by jdavidb on Thursday August 13 2015, @05:16AM
Nevertheless, ruling out men who want to cohabit before marriage drastically improves the odds of a woman and her children avoiding domestic violence.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 14 2015, @02:35AM
Since when is there a correlation? What would really help improve her odds of avoiding domestic violence is leaving immediately after the first hit and never coming back, instead of staying with him and acquiescing to further violence, like most women do for some idiotic reason.
(Score: 2) by jdavidb on Friday August 14 2015, @03:46PM
Since when is there a correlation?
My source for the information is Dr. Willard Harley, who cites several studies that have shown that cohabiting drastically increases the occurrence of domestic violence.
What would really help improve her odds of avoiding domestic violence is leaving immediately after the first hit and never coming back
Harley teaches that as well. And to be very frank, my wife insisted that I leave our home three years ago because of my own angry outbursts. I didn't come back until successfully learning anger management, and if it ever happens again I am gone. So, yes, you are right that this also improves the odds astoundingly.
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