Easy divorce, earlier death?
by Nicole M. King
The News Story - Breaking up is hard to do in Arkansas: why divorce laws are getting stricter
While it may seem like divorce is easier than ever to obtain, the reverse is actually true, according to Newsweek. Thanks to the efforts of conservative politicians like Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry, many states have instituted policies that require long mandatory “cool-down” periods and time-consuming parenting classes.
And this trend, Newsweek believes, is unhealthy, because “Instead of trying to make a highly charged scenario easier to navigate, such legislation does the opposite. . . . it just forces two unhappy people to stay together longer.” As an alternative to such legislation, the story proposes the example of California’s new pilot program, “One Day Divorce.” In contrast to the tight-lipped, pale-faced couples in traditional divorce proceedings, “the litigants in One Day Divorce are universally smiling and overflowing with joy to the point of high-fiving and hugging their volunteer attorneys—and just as frequently their newly divorced ex.”
But no matter how much the media might portray a speedy, cheap divorce as the best possible solution to marital ills, the research still indicates that divorce is taken far too lightly in this country.
The New Research - The divorce lawyer and the mortician
A striking correlation between divorce and premature death has been noted in a number of studies. That correlation is all the more impressive now that researchers at the University of Arizona have completed a comprehensive analysis integrating a raft of such studies.
Quantifying the elevation of risk, the researchers calculate that when divorced adults are compared to married peers, they face “a 23% increase in the probability of being dead from all causes at each future assessment.” Through further parsing of the data, the researchers establish that “relative to women, men evidenced significantly greater risk for early death following divorce.” Their statistical model also reveals that adults who were “younger than 65 years at the start of the study evidenced greater risk for early death following divorce than did participants who were older than 65 years at the start of the study.”
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Read more: www.mercatornet.com
The News Story - Breaking up is hard to do in Arkansas: why divorce laws are getting stricter
While it may seem like divorce is easier than ever to obtain, the reverse is actually true, according to Newsweek. Thanks to the efforts of conservative politicians like Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry, many states have instituted policies that require long mandatory “cool-down” periods and time-consuming parenting classes.
And this trend, Newsweek believes, is unhealthy, because “Instead of trying to make a highly charged scenario easier to navigate, such legislation does the opposite. . . . it just forces two unhappy people to stay together longer.” As an alternative to such legislation, the story proposes the example of California’s new pilot program, “One Day Divorce.” In contrast to the tight-lipped, pale-faced couples in traditional divorce proceedings, “the litigants in One Day Divorce are universally smiling and overflowing with joy to the point of high-fiving and hugging their volunteer attorneys—and just as frequently their newly divorced ex.”
But no matter how much the media might portray a speedy, cheap divorce as the best possible solution to marital ills, the research still indicates that divorce is taken far too lightly in this country.
The New Research - The divorce lawyer and the mortician
A striking correlation between divorce and premature death has been noted in a number of studies. That correlation is all the more impressive now that researchers at the University of Arizona have completed a comprehensive analysis integrating a raft of such studies.
Quantifying the elevation of risk, the researchers calculate that when divorced adults are compared to married peers, they face “a 23% increase in the probability of being dead from all causes at each future assessment.” Through further parsing of the data, the researchers establish that “relative to women, men evidenced significantly greater risk for early death following divorce.” Their statistical model also reveals that adults who were “younger than 65 years at the start of the study evidenced greater risk for early death following divorce than did participants who were older than 65 years at the start of the study.”
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Read more: www.mercatornet.com
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