Scientists have proven the advantages of marriage
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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If a small survey is conducted to find out whether the marriage is healthy, there will probably be a lot of opinions, but there are two main categories of opinions: those who claim that marriage has a positive effect on the health of both men and women, who will break the beneficial effect of the stamp in the passport to the nines. But to put an end to these disputes will help a new study of scientists who found that women who are married are less susceptible to depression and this effect can last several years.
Specialists have found that pregnant women who have already tied themselves up by marriage are more likely to be less prone to postpartum depression than those who live with a partner in a civil marriage.
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More than 6,000 women took part in the study of the scientists, with the example of which experts tried to find out all the benefits of entering into a legal relationship.
The experts found that women who cohabited with a man, but who were not married, more often suffered from partner violence, and also abused alcohol or took drugs.
"For the first time we tried to assess the impact of the duration of cohabitation outside of marriage and found that the shorter the period of cohabitation in a civil marriage, the greater the likelihood that women suffer from partner violent actions, and are also prone to alcohol and drug addiction, and the risks of postpartum depression , - commented the lead author of the study Marcelo Urquia of the University of Toronto. - We did not see such a picture among women who are in legal relations with their spouses. They were more stable psychologically and the duration of cohabitation in this case had no meaning. "
The researchers found that 20% of unmarried women who had lived with their civil spouses for less than two years had suffered at least one of the above problems, but the longer the couple lived together, the less frequent quarrels occurred in the family and the less there were problems.
For women who were never married and remained alone, this figure was 35%.
The highest percentage of women with postpartum depression was among divorced women, as well as among those who lived with their spouse separately. Especially postpartum depression affected those who parted with their spouse less than twelve months before the birth of the child. There were 67% of such women.
And married women will have these problems, including postpartum depression, least of all. Women in legal relationships suffered less from similar problems - only 10.6% experienced stress and certain difficulties.
Scientists conducted this study in order to determine all the positive and negative moments of marriage, because at the moment more and more couples do not legitimize relationships and give birth to children without being married. Only in Canada this figure was 30%. For comparison, in 1971 there were only 9% of children born out of wedlock.
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