Are men really more likely to leave their wives when they become chronically ill or disabled ?

One of the, many, arguments a misandrist will say, to show men as awful, is that they are statistically more likely to leave their wives if the wife becomes chronically ill, or disabled, and he is expected to be the caretaker. 

This is following a study in 2015 which tracked 2,701 marriages and found that the onset of a wfe's illness is more likely associated with an elevated risk of divorce.

So yes, men, the swine, are more likely to leave a sick wife than a wife is to leave a sick man.

As always though, these things are not quite as cut and dry as the average, angry, feminist would have you believe. They point to it as another form of misogyny and how women are constantly held back by patriachy and, as per usual, awful, horrible, men.

The thing is even getting to that point where a marriage has lasted long enough for illness onset in later life is incredibly rare. Sadly 42% of marriages, in the UK, end in divorce.The courts usually award child custody to the mother, fathers loose out, and so there are many children growing up in single mother households. Statistics show that these children, without a full time father figure, can grow up with multiple problems: drug use, criminal activity leading to incarceration but to name a few.

The thing is that divorce is overwhelmingly initiated by the wife, in around 70% of cases. This is why lesbian marriages ending in divorce is double gay or hetero marriages. As soon as you add a woman into a relationship it's more likely to end. Add two women and the chances of it ending are significantly increased.

And the elevated risk of a man bailing on a sick wife ? 6%. That's 1/10th the chance of a woman bailing on the man. A wife needs to get chronically ill ELEVEN TIMES before he catches up with the chances of her leaving him.

The truth is ? Yes there's an elevated risk but it's unlikely to happen because the woman has usually bailed on the man long before she gets to the point of being ill.

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