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People with better health, more resources, and less stress are more likely to marry, and marriage brings resources, and social support. [18] The health benefits of marriage persist even after controlling for selection effects, indicating that being married is protective of health. [19]
While marriage doesn't reduce your Social Security benefits, the timing of when you claim them does. According to the Social Security Administration, you can start collecting benefits as early as ...
There is empirical evidence of the causal impact of social relationships on health. The social support theory suggests that relationships might promote health especially by promoting adaptive behavior or regulating the stress response. [1] Troubled relationships as well as loneliness and social exclusion may have negative consequences on health ...
A healthier person may be more appealing to their partner. For example, having a higher income could improve the health care individuals receive or lowers stress. In certain marriages, a spouse may help in monitoring and encouraging healthy behaviors; as well as discouraging unhealthy habits. Marriage may provide an emotional fulfilling ...
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Boys experience more social stress among their peers than girls in the form of verbal and physical abuse, but girls experience more social stress through strains in their friendships and social networks. To deal with social stress, girls do more support-seeking, express more emotions to their friends, and ruminate more than boys. Boys use humor ...
The Supporting Healthy Marriage Project (SHM) is part of the Healthy Marriage Initiative funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, that was launched in 2003 as "the first large-scale, multisite, multiyear, rigorous test of marriage education programs for low-income married couples ...
You've heard that tall men may have the upper hand in the workplace, but it appears short men have the upper hand at home. According to sociologists at NYU, tall men marry tend to marry older ...