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| ▲ | Swizec a day ago | parent | next [-] | | > I generally agree, but they're focused mostly on 65+ age group Another aspect possibly driving this: In USA a lot of people get divorced immediately after a cancer (or similar) diagnosis. That way only one of you goes bankrupt and you get to keep half your lifetime savings. | | |
| ▲ | dottjt a day ago | parent | next [-] | | On the contrary, you may get paid out a massive life insurance claim. | | |
| ▲ | abirch a day ago | parent [-] | | You don’t have to be married to be the beneficiary of life insurance policy. I believe you only need a financial interest. | | |
| ▲ | LorenPechtel a day ago | parent [-] | | And a divorce will not cancel an existing policy even if it puts you in a position you couldn't get a new one. |
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| ▲ | kortilla a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | That is not happening in any meaningful volume. | |
| ▲ | mhurron a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | [flagged] | | |
| ▲ | codeulike a day ago | parent | next [-] | | Not sure if it was that paper, but there was a similar paper showing this phenomenon which later turned out to contain an error: https://retractionwatch.com/2015/07/21/to-our-horror-widely-... People who left the study were actually miscoded as getting divorced. After the adjustment the correlation was less but was still there. | | |
| ▲ | mhurron a day ago | parent [-] | | No, they're not referencing the same paper. | | |
| ▲ | daymanstep a day ago | parent [-] | | The paper that you cited is the 2009 study: Glantz, M. J., Chamberlain, M. C., Liu, Q., Hsieh, C. C., Edwards, K. R., Van Horn, A., & Recht, L. (2009). Gender disparity in the rate of partner abandonment in patients with serious medical illness. Cancer, 115(22), 5237-5242. https://acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10... That paper has been debunked. Its conclusions were based on a coding error. When the coding error is corrected for the gender disparity disappears. Please stop citing this paper without adding that it was debunked. See for more details: https://www.benjaminkeep.com/misinformation-on-the-internet/ |
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| ▲ | daymanstep a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | > If the wife gets ill, the marriage has about a 20% chance of ending because of it. If the husband becomes ill, there is only a 3% chance. Wrong. That paper has been debunked already. See: https://www.benjaminkeep.com/misinformation-on-the-internet/ | |
| ▲ | bdangubic a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | don’t fall for this type of nonsense :) | |
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| ▲ | quesera a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | A few trends which might be relevant: - First-time parenthood is frequently occurring later in life
- Couples are more often having (additional) children at later ages
- Children are sometimes not "launching" until later in their 20s.
So, ~35yo first-time parents and/or ~40yo youngest-child parents, plus ~25-30yo children moving out ... That can get you to 65-70 years pretty easily. | |
| ▲ | jacobolus a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | Alternately, it might be that the cohort now age 65+ was more likely to divorce than the previous generation at every age throughout their lives, and there were some kind of generational effects involved. |
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