Married vs. Single: Health Gap Narrows

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 2008-08-12 00:09

Article here. Excerpt:

"Getting married doesn't improve one's health as much as it used to, according to a new study.

Married people have historically reported better health than their never-married peers. It has generally been accepted that marriage provides social, psychological, and financial resources that improve overall health. But a new study, published in the September issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, suggests the gap is narrowing, particularly for men."

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Today society is determined to destroy marriage and more widely - any constant relations between sexes. Artificial womb is coming.

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Single men is the only social group benefited from feminism.

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Submitted by nbdspcl on Tue, 2008-08-12 21:31

But because trends in marriage have changed so dramatically over the past few decades, with more people opting not to marry or marrying at later ages, Liu wanted to assess what, if any, effects these changes might have on physical health.

READ AS:

In the past, those who were healthy married and those who weren't did not. Now that healthy men are deciding not to marry in massive numbers, the selection bias no longer skews the results.

In other words: it was correlation all along, never causation.

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Submitted by Demonspawn on Wed, 2008-08-13 04:06