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Unmarried men aged 40-60yrs x3.5 more likely to die by suicide compared to married men/women of same age. Unmarried men 40-75yrs 2-fold risk of suicide compared to married men of same age. Divorced men x8 more likely to kill themselves than divorced women https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/talking-about-men/202102/the-mental-health-single-and-divorced-men
Heaven forbid that we acknowledge that the institution of marriage might be a beneficial arrangement for lots of people, men, women & children, & for society as a whole for that matter, rather than an outdated patriarchal matrix of oppression huh?
Interesting also the way in which the protective nature of marriage, particularly for men, is basically never mentioned in much of the discussion about suicide prevention.
What causes suicide-rates to fluctuate is always multi-causal but there is a glaring hole in the debate which progressives (who dominate the public conservation) tend to neglect bc it doesn't suit their priors related to the decline of conservative institutions such as marriage.
Instead we get fed neo-Marxian tripe such as this https://www.thenation.com/article/society/family-covid-care-marriage/
The cliff-edge in the late 1970s/early 1980s on this graph is quite precipitous https://twitter.com/EdwardDaviesCSJ/status/1358542707367571459?s=20
This is another thing we gloss over/ignore.
âParental divorce during childhood has consistently been linked to increased risk of suicide attempt among offspringâ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3767404/
âParental divorce during childhood has consistently been linked to increased risk of suicide attempt among offspringâ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3767404/
I see it all the time in the job that i do. Suicidal/self-harming young men/women, they often/usually (albeit not always) come from homes in which their mum & dad split-up/never stayed together, is that a coincidence?
Maybe it is a coincidence, but I strongly doubt that it is.
But, at the same time, it has to be recognised that divorce is sometimes necessary, so there are no easy answers/solutions to this problem to be peddled or to be found
https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w10175/w10175.pdf
https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w10175/w10175.pdf
Good point. To put this in left-wing terms: strong family-bonds are a problem for laissez-faire capitalism, the more attachments you have, the less pliable a worker youâre gonna be, every relationship you value is a burden to capital in that sense. https://twitter.com/EdwardDaviesCSJ/status/1358551268965376000?s=20
The dude who loves his wife & kids more than anything else is not gonna be as flexible as the dude who has no wife or kids.
