Health
According to Gerstel and Sarkisian, bad marriages have worse health states, including stress, suicide, hypertension, cancer, and slower wound healing.
Read more about this topic: Criticism Of Marriage
Famous quotes containing the word health:
“Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“Some fear that if parents start listening to their own wants and needs they will neglect their children. It is our belief that children are in fact far less likely to be neglected when their parents needsfor support, for friendship, for decent work, for health care, for learning, for play, for time aloneare being met.”
—Wendy Coppedge Sanford. Ourselves and Our Children, by Boston Womens Health Book Collective, introduction (1978)
“No one ever promised me it would be easy and its not. But I also get many rewards from seeing my children grow, make strong decisions for themselves, and set out on their own as independent, strong, likeable human beings. And I like who I am becoming, too. Having teenagers has made me more human, more flexible, more humble, more questioningand, finally its given me a better sense of humor!”
—Anonymous Father. Ourselves and Our Children, by Boston Womens Health Book Collective, ch. 4 (1978)