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Article: Leading Article: Marriage - an institution to celebrate
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 29, 1996
CopyrightCopyright 1996 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Marriage helps to prevent suicide. Marriage is a prophylactic
against depression. It stops excessive drinking. Marriage - deep
breath - makes people happier. Those are the stripped-down findings
of a market research study we reported yesterday.
Of course they are generalisations. Of course they speak to the
institution of marriage, not to any specific union. Yes, market
researchers are more anxious to find out the future demand for
pizzas than to plumb psychological depths. But to commercial
findings such as this needs to be added a growing mound of
high-quality academic work. Stein Ringen, professor of sociology at