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21 Reasons WHY MARRIAGE MATTERS Twenty-One Conclusions from the Social Sciences The Twenty-One Conclusions: A Snapshot 原文網址:http://familyfirst.org.nz/research/why-marriage-matters/ FAMILY 1. Marriage increases the likelihood that fathers have good relationships with their children 2. Cohabitation is not the functional equivalent of marriage 3. Growing up outside an intact marriage increases the likelihood that children themselves divorce or become unwed parents 4. Marriage is a virtually universal human institution. ECONOMICS 5. Divorce and unmarried childbearing increase poverty for both children and mothers 6. Married couples seem to build more wealth on average than singles or cohabiting couples 7. Married men earn more money than do single men with similar education and job histories 8. Parental divorce (or failure to marry) appears to increase children’s risk of school failure 9. Parental divorce reduces the likelihood that children will graduate from college and achieve high-status jobs PHYSICAL HEALTH AND LONGEVITY 10.Children who live with their own two married parents enjoy better physical health, on average, than do children in other family forms 11.Parental marriage is associated with a sharply lower risk of infant mortality 12. Marriage is associated with reduced rates of alcohol and substance abuse for both adults and teens 13. Married people, especially married men, have longer life expectancies than do otherwise similar singles 14. Marriage is associated with better health and lower rates of injury, illness, and disability for both men and women MENTAL HEALTH AND EMOTIONAL WELL-BEING 15. Children whose parents divorce have higher rates of psychological distress and mental illness 16. Divorce appears significantly to increase the risk of suicide 17. Married mothers have lower rates of depression than do single or cohabiting mothers CRIME AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE 18.Boys raised in single-parent families are more likely to engage in delinquent and criminal behaviour 19.Marriage appear to reduce the risk that adults will be either perpetrators or victims of crime 20.Married women appear to have a lower risk of experiencing domestic violence than do cohabiting or dating women 21.A child who is not living with his or her own two married parents is at greater risk of child abuse First Published © 2004, Revised addition. © 2009 Published by Dads4Kids Fatherhood Foundation, PO Box 542, Unanderra NSW 2526 Australia in cooperation with the National Marriage Coalition in Australia and the National Marriage Coalition New Zealand. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ WHY MARRIAGE MATTERS “21 Reasons WHY MARRIAGE MATTERS” – a trans-tasman effort to highlight the benefits of marriage has been released inNew Zealand. The report was commissioned by Family First NZ and FamilyLife NZ in conjunction with a number of family organisations inAustralia including the Australian Family Association, Family VoiceAustralia and Dads4Kids and is an update of the report originally released in theUS in 2002. |
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