Isn't life a bitch ?
We even have Courtney mimicking one like it's something natural. Well guess what girls ?
Wrong again..
Read and weep...
Cougars and toy boys 'a deadly match'
- Women with younger husbands die earlier
- But older men young wives live longer
- Study involved analysis of marriage, death records
HAVING a toy boy husband increases a woman's chances of an early death, according to a new study. And the younger her spouse is, the harder it is on a woman's health, research carried out in Germany says. However the trend is reversed when an older man opts for a younger woman. The more youthful his wife, the longer the husband is expected to live, Britain's Daily Mail reported.
The finding will come as a blow growing numbers of "cougars" - middle-aged women who shun older men in search of younger guys.
Celebrity cougars include US actress Demi Moore, 47, who is 15 years older than actor husband Ashton Kutcher, and Friends star Courteney Cox, who is married to actor David Arquette - seven years her junior.
A woman who bags a man seven to nine years younger than her is 20 per cent more likely to die at any given point than someone married to a man her own age. And when a cougar weds someone more than 15 years younger than her, the risk soars to more than 30 per cent.The trend was identified by an analysis of marriage and death records belonging to almost two million Danish men and women.
Sven Drefahl of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Germany, said: "The greater the age difference, the lower the wife's life expectancy. The best choice for a woman is to marry a man of exactly the same age."
A "sugar daddy" with a wife seven to nine years his junior is seven per cent less likely to die at any given time - probably because she's more likely to nurse him in old age.
By contrast, a younger man tends to be less inclined to look after his elderly wife. And cougars are more likely to be seen as predatory - making it less likely for them to maintain friends and dependents, another factor researchers suggested could explain their findings.
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5 comments:
Most likely this situation represents the effects of high testosterone in the older women. Increased testosterone reduces the life span. James Howard www.anthropogeny.com
I think it looks strange when the woman is older than the man.
I am glad my husband is much older than me, it has always made me feel protected and looked after. :)
I could never date a younger man. Then I met my husband who is 19 years older than me. We actually met on that online game Second Life! We got to know eachother gradually and the age difference was a bit of a shock once we told eachother how old we were because we were so compatible. But it doesn't matter to us. I think we meet somewhere in the middle. I"m glad to know that statistically he is likely to live longer with me :)
Might it also have something to do with a cougars riskier behaviors? She is more likely to party and engage in behaviors that might not faze a younger person but with age they have a more deleterious effect?
Maybe the study is BS and doesn't prove anything at all. What, that an older spouse is more likely to die first? Obviously. Perhaps it is strange for a woman to marry a man that is older than her... That is so weird and predatory and GROSS isn't it?
Perhaps our society is not rational. Why is it okay and even "natural" for older men to date young women, but the reverse is "odd"? There is no difference. None. I think that feminism exists only to question the belief system of someone like Foreign-Girl and those like her, who seem to hold views that are completely hypocritical.
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