{"id":944,"date":"2009-07-30T07:54:02","date_gmt":"2009-07-30T13:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/crawler\/?p=944"},"modified":"2009-07-28T08:01:40","modified_gmt":"2009-07-28T14:01:40","slug":"lasting-marriage-better-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2009\/07\/30\/lasting-marriage-better-health\/","title":{"rendered":"lasting marriage, better health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Creative Commons licensed photo by Thompski on flickr.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/26280898@N08\/3598296448\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2261\/3598296448_c01a0f6ed4_t.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"DSC_1406\" \/><\/a>Earlier this week <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/healthNews\/idUSTRE56Q4OI20090727\">Reuters Health <\/a>ran a story about a new study suggesting that &#8220;people who get married and stay married may enjoy better health than the perpetually single, but losing a spouse could take a significant health toll&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the new study, researchers found that middle-aged and older Americans who were currently married tended to give higher ratings to their health than their never-married counterparts. They also reported fewer depression symptoms and limits on their mobility.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, divorced or widowed adults fared worse than the never married on certain health measures &#8212; including the number of chronic health conditions reported. &#8220;Previously married people experience, on average, 20 percent more conditions and 23 percent more limitations,&#8221; the researchers write in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior.<\/p>\n<p>Remarriage seemed to lessen some of the health effects of divorce or widowhood. However, remarried men and women were still in generally poorer health than those in a lasting marriage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sociologist Linda J. Waite of the University of Chicago co-authored the report:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We argue that losing a marriage through divorce or widowhood is extremely stressful and that a high-stress period takes a toll on health,&#8221; researcher Linda J. Waite, a professor of sociology at the University of Chicago, said in a written statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Think of health as money in the bank,&#8221; she added. &#8220;Think of a marriage as a mechanism for &#8216;saving&#8217; or adding to health. Think of divorce as a period of very high expenditures.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/healthNews\/idUSTRE56Q4OI20090727\">Read more. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week Reuters Health ran a story about a new study suggesting that &#8220;people who get married and stay married may enjoy better health than the perpetually single, but losing a spouse could take a significant health toll&#8230;&#8221; In the new study, researchers found that middle-aged and older Americans who were currently married tended [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39074],"tags":[39113,122,320,152],"class_list":["post-944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sightings","tag-health","tag-lifecourse","tag-marriage","tag-medical"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=944"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":946,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions\/946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}