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  • For Married Women, Age Gap Can Be Deadly

    Umm…okay:

    A new study shows that women who marry men seven to nine years younger than they are increase their mortality risk by 20 percent.

    This is the opposite of the finding for men who marry much younger wives – their life expectancy increases.

    The new study from the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany, changes assumptions about how marriage can extend life, owing in part to improved support systems spouses can provide for one another, and the supposed psychological benefit from having a younger spouse, who could become a caretaker should the older spouse become infirm.

    If they date and marry someone younger not only do they get called cougars but now they even get a shorter life expectancy. Older women just can’t win.

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    Published on May 17, 2010 · Filed under: News; Tagged as: , , , ,
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