Husbands throw sick wife

Cancer is becoming the hardest test of strength for any union.   Support of a loved one   b Aulnay times as necessary as medical assistance. But alas, not all spouses are willing to make a sacrifice.

Researchers from the Cancer Community Seattle found that men are six times more likely abandon their women with cancer than women - sick men. In the study, researchers evaluated the effect on marital relations are terrible diagnosis as cancer and multiple sclerosis . It turned out that in the Union, where one of the spouses is suffering from such diseases, the divorce rate is 12%, which, in general, no different from a similar level in healthy families.

But when sociologists look at the gender characteristics of divorces, as the picture changed completely. It turns out that the divorce rate rises to 21% if the hazardous -rak diagnosis or multiple sclerosis - Posing women. That is, their husbands are actively fleeing from their ill halves.

But the fairer sex, it turns out, are far more powerful than men. The level of divorces in families where the diagnosis is a terrible man, is only 3%.

Scientists attribute this to the fact that men are by nature less inclined to commitment and loyalty. And in women is much more strongly developed sense of responsibility. Ladies rarely throw in need of their support for the men, because they consider it a betrayal.

Psychology

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