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Marriage: It Does a Mind Good

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Men and Women Get Mental Boost from Marriage

"LONDON (Reuters) – Women, as well as men, benefit from marriage and get a mental health boost from being a couple, new study findings suggest. Research from Australia, which shows that about 13 percent of married men and women suffer from stress, contradicts the findings of a 1972 study by sociologist Jessie Bernard. Her study which looked at anxiety, depression and neurosis in married and unmarried people found that men reaped the benefits of marriage at the expense of women. 'The idea that men benefit from being part of a couple while women suffer all the stress has taken a blow,' New Scientist magazine said on Wednesday."

Even More on Marriage

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There seems to have been a flurry of research related to the study of what makes for good marriages. The results are, I'm pleased to say, in accordance with natural law AND the teachings of the Catholic Church. It's time for the prodigal son (secular society) to come home after learning hard leasons in "the real world".

Couples Who Live Together Split Faster: Report
By Keith Mulvihill

"NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – New study findings show that marriage is indeed a tie that binds–or at least binds a bit tighter than cohabitation without matrimony."

"Couples who live together without marriage are twice as likely to split up 5 years after they move in together than couples who tie the knot, according to a report from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). And similar to past research, the survey found that couples who lived together before marriage were also more likely to split than those who waited until after they got hitched."

"The report is based on a 1995 survey of nearly 11,000 women between the ages of 15 and 44."

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U.S. Compiles Divorce Statistics
By LAURA MECKLER

"One in three marriages will end in divorce during their first 10 years, with certain couples more likely to split up than others, a government survey finds. People who marry young, have less money, are not religious and whose parents are divorced are more likely to divorce themselves.Overall, by age 30, three in four women have been married and about half have lived with a partner outside marriage."

"Those are among the findings of an extensive survey of nearly 11,000 women ages 15 to 44 exploring factors influencing cohabitation, marriage and divorce. The survey, conducted in 1995 by the National Center for Health Statistics, focuses on a wide range of family and fertility issues and included only women. A new round of interviews being done now includes both men and women."

Divorce and premarital cohabitation are bad ideas? Gee, the Catholic Church has always maintained that. Amazing, ain't it? 😉

Man and Husband

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On personal and religious grounds, I do not support homosexual marriage, but I do not believe secular nations should legislate against them. Besides, it solves a lot of same-sex benefits problems.

Court ruling favors gay marriage
Tom Musbach

Canada took a major step toward legally recognizing same-sex marriage on Friday when an Ontario court ruled that to do otherwise is unconstitutional.

A three-judge panel of the Ontario Superior Court decided that granting marriage licenses only to heterosexual couples violates Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

According to the Associated Press, the court also ordered the federal Parliament to officially redefine “marriage” within the next two years. Current federal law defines marriage as “a union between one man and one woman to the exclusion of all others.”