Does a wifes nagging do a man good?
Is a wife that nags occasionally better than no wife at all? A University of Chicago researcher thinks so. In a fascinating speech before the Population Association of America in 1995, demographer Linda Waite reported on a wide range of studies showing that married men typically live longer and enjoy significantly better health than unmarried men. In fact, Waite says that, on average, a man’s lifespan is shortened more by being unmarried than by being poor, by being overweight or by having heart disease. Divorced men are particularly likely to experience health problems. When compared to married men, divorced males are twice as likely to die prematurely from hypertension, four times as likely to die prematurely from throat cancer and seven times as likely to die prematurely from pneumonia. Divorced men also have significantly higher rates of depression, substance abuse, auto accidents and suicide. “Being divorced and a non-smoker is only slightly less dangerous than smoking a pack or m
