Marriage And Quality Of Life

	posted by Scott on Wednesday January 03, @06:56AM from the news dept.
	Bill Kuhl writes "On the NBC Nightly News on New Year's Day there was a segment debunkng the myth that following marriage, on average, the quality of men's lives improves while the quality of women's suffers. The recent study was done by sociologist Linda J. Waite of the Univ. of Chicago. Previously, as NBC pointed out, experts in the field had agreed that, after getting married, men's health tended to improve while women tended to become depressed. (I just can't help but wonder, how were they able to compare their sampling with a cloned group of unmarried men and women? There are too many variables that could have brought about the changes in the two groups' quality of life.) Nonetheless, kudos to Dr. Waite and to NBC for reporting on the politically incorrect study. I might add that the segment mentioned a number of areas in which the quality of women's lives tend to improve. A summary of Dr. Waite's findings can be found at this link. Perhaps the nicest tidbit that NBC reported was that only 4% of the married female respondants said they had 'unhappy marriages,' certainly not the picture of marriage that the media and academia would have us believe."

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Bill Kuhl's comment. (Score:1) by Scott (scott@mensactivism.org) on Wednesday January 03, @06:37AM EST (#1) (User #3 Info) http://www.vortxweb.net/gorgias/mens_issues/index.html Bill also wrote the following, which I am including as a comment because of the length of the article blurb: "I might also add that in all the research I've reviewed on gender-related issues, (I'm a grad student in counseling), I have noticed that sociologists, much more so than psychologists, tend to depict the differences between the genders from a more truthful, accurate perspective, using scientific methods in their studies rather than tailoring their methods to meet some predetermined conclusion."

Joke (Score:1) by BusterB on Wednesday January 03, @02:57PM EST (#2) (User #94 Info) http://themenscenter.com/busterb/ At the risk of being flippant, here is a snippet from a recent e-mail joke I received called "The Maths of Life": "Married men live longer than single men, but married men are a lot more willing to die."

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