http://contexts.org/crawler/2008/08/12/you-dont-need-a-wife-to-lead-a-healthy-life/ Sociology Online Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:53:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 http://contexts.org/crawler/2008/08/12/you-dont-need-a-wife-to-lead-a-healthy-life/#comment-122 Sociology in the News - Wife Not Needed for Healthy Life | The Global Sociology Blog Fri, 15 Aug 2008 01:29:29 +0000 http://contexts.org/crawler/?p=179#comment-122 [...] 14th, 2008 by SocProf and tagged Gender, Health, Social Stigma, Social Theory, Sociology Via Context Crawler comes this story reported in the Detroit Free Press [...] [...] 14th, 2008 by SocProf and tagged Gender, Health, Social Stigma, Social Theory, Sociology Via Context Crawler comes this story reported in the Detroit Free Press [...]

]]> http://contexts.org/crawler/2008/08/12/you-dont-need-a-wife-to-lead-a-healthy-life/#comment-121 amy Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:10:11 +0000 http://contexts.org/crawler/?p=179#comment-121 I think it's because married men end up relying on their wives for all sorts of things and then they're helpless when their wives die (Gals, ever leave your husbands home for an extended period of time? Ever come home to anything but empty potato chip bags in the fridge, which he's been eating for dinner since the food you left him ran out?), whereas never-marrieds always have to fend for themselves. I think it’s because married men end up relying on their wives for all sorts of things and then they’re helpless when their wives die (Gals, ever leave your husbands home for an extended period of time? Ever come home to anything but empty potato chip bags in the fridge, which he’s been eating for dinner since the food you left him ran out?), whereas never-marrieds always have to fend for themselves.

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