Military Marriages Stay Strong in Face of Challenges: Study

May 18th, 2012

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

FRIDAY, May 18 (HealthDay News) — Despite being tested by long hours
and frequent relocations and separations, military marriages are no more
likely to end in divorce than civilian marriages, a new study shows.

Even with the increase in long-term overseas deployments since military
operations began in Afghanistan and Iraq, the likelihood of divorce for
service members has not risen significantly.

Benjamin Karney, a professor of social psychology at the University of
California, Los Angeles, and colleagues compared marriage and divorce
rates of military personnel and civilians in the three years before and
after the conflicts began in Afghanistan and Iraq. They examined U.S.
Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System records from 1998 to 2005,
and compared them to civilian data for the same time period from the
Current Populations Surveys.

After taking into account differences in age, race, education and
employment, the study revealed that despite a surge in overseas deployment
from 2002 to 2005, divorce rates did not increase for military service
members. Military divorce rates were not higher than that of civilians
and, as members of the military got older, they were less likely to be
divorced.

The study appeared online recently in the Journal of Family
Issues.

“A possible explanation for this pattern is that time spent in military
service enhances the stability of military marriages,” the researchers
wrote in a journal news release.

The authors suggested that benefits provided to married military
members, including housing supplements, cost-of-living bonuses, the
ability to live off-base with their families and full spousal health care
coverage, could play a role in the stability of military marriages.

More information

Military OneSource, a service of the U.S. Department of Defense,
provides information on how to strengthen military families.