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It Pays to Get
Married...
Article by
Scott Gardner,
PhD

It Pays to Get
Married...

married
people are happier, richer and live
longer.

Scott Gardner, PhD

South Dakota State University

The Myth - Marriage is a drag: it's
a ball and chain, it's boring, it's detrimental to
progress, and it's negative.

This is a MYTH. Repeat, this is a myth.

This myth is embedded in our culture and has
crept into our speech and even our jokes.

The Facts

~  Married people are
happier.
~  Married people are
healthier.
~  Married people live
longer.
~  Married people are
better off financially and accumulate more
wealth.
~  Married people are less
depressed and have less mental illness and
suicide.
~  Married people have more
and better sex.

Here's the
TRUTH.

The best information we have comes from the
in-depth research of Linda Waite and Maggie
Gallagher in their book The Case for Marriage:
Why Married People are Happier, Healthier and
Better Off Financially   In
summarizing over 200 research studies, they found
the following:

~  Married
people report being "very happy" twice as often as
do unmarried people.
~  Non-married
men have a mortality rate 250% higher than married
men. Non-married women have a mortality rate
50%  higher than non-married
women.
~  Married couples
accumulate 12-30% more wealth.
~
Cohabiting women are 3 times more likely to
experience domestic violence than married
women.
~  Married people have more
and better sex. For example, 48% of married men
say sex is extremely emotionally satisfying,
compared with 37% of cohabitating
men.
~  Children from married
families are more likely to do well in school, be
emotionally stable and take on leadership
roles.

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Resources

Waite, L. J. & Gallagher,
M. (2000). The Case for Marriage: Why
Married People are Happier, Healthier and Better
Off Financially.   New York:
Doubleday.

Waite, L. (1995).
Does marriage matter? Demography,
32, 483-507.

Institute for American
Values (2005). Why Marriage Matters,
Second Edition, Twenty-Six Conclusions from the
Social Sciences.

© 2007, Scott Gardner, PhD;  http://www.buildingrelationshipskills.org/

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God bless your marriage and
family.

Jim
Stephens

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