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The Lower Premature Mortality of Married Women
11 different scholarly studies conclude that:
Marriage reduces the premature mortality rate of women by 30-60%.
Non-marriage is 3-11 times greater a health risk than tobacco smoking--which Congress believes should be regulated.
45% of marriageable American males remain unmarried today, up from 23.2% in 1960, leaving 50 million women unmarried.
Across all causes and all age groups, these unmarried women have a 42-114% higher premature mortality rate than married women.
Divorce increases the male premature mortality rate by 4x greater than it increases the female rate.
Divorce increases the premature mortality rate of children by 44%.
10.7 of each 1,000 unmarried women die each year, compared to 5.7 married women.
Of every 1,000 women who divorce before age 30, at least 378 will die before age 65 compared to 266 married women.
Of every 1,000 men who divorce before age 30, all of them will die before age 65 compared to 427 married men.
If these 50 million unmarried women were married, 250,000 fewer females would die each year and 2.2 million fewer would have died over the last 26 years.
Rather than admit that the lower mortality rate of married women is due to the presence of males who protect them, feminist "scholars" assert that it is due to the presence of a woman who cooks nutritious meals.
Rather than admit that the higher mortality rate of never married women (which is even higher than for divorced women) is due to the absence of males, feminist "scholars" assert that it is due to the inherent stress of female single life (while 'forgetting' that they can still cook nutritious meals).
Blind dumb feminists openly admit that they are responsible for the 50 fold increase in the US divorce rate, can't identify one single way in which women as a group benefited from feminism nor the Nineteenth Amendment, can't understand the connection between the higher divorce and higher mortality rates, and are morally responsible for 2.2 million female fatalities.
Patrick Fagan of the Heritage Foundation