Pourquoi il est important de se marier

[Roniberal]

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/WaterCooler/stor…1160&page=1

Wedding Ring Saves Man During Shooting

Band Deflected a Bullet, Prevented Any Injury

A lesson for spouses: Wearing your wedding ring can save your life as it did, quite literally, for one Mississippi man, when his band deflected a bullet.

Donnie Register was at his shop Saturday morning at the Antique Market in Jackson, Miss., when two men came in and said they wanted to talk about coins.

Register retrieved the coin collection. When he returned, he found himself looking down the barrel of a gun.

" faced this fellow and he had a gun pointed right in my face and they demanded money," Register said. "One of them ran towards the door."

"The other one … reached over the counter with a pistol and when he did, I put my hand over my face," he added.

Register said he knew they would shoot him and reenacted the moment, ducking down and putting his hand over the side of his face. Because of that, the bullet just pinged off the side of his head.

"I knew he was fixing to shoot me and he shot me," Register said. "Luckily my wedding band deflected the bullet."

His ring is now dented and a little bloody, but Register was otherwise unharmed.

Register, who has been married for 38 years, credits his marriage for saving his life.

"I knew being married was a good thing," he said. "I just didn't know it was that good."

After the shooting, the assailants got away with a substantial amount of money and police continue to search for the pair, according to The Associated Press.

But Register's wife said she believes the incident serves as a lesson to all married men.

"I think it's a good lesson for men out there to learn that it's a good idea to wear that ring," said Darlene Register. "It could come in handy someday."

[Roniberal]

Voilà pourquoi il faut rester marié à vie:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/…71203190625.htm

A Really Inconvenient Truth: Divorce Is Not Green

ScienceDaily (Dec. 5, 2007) — The data are in. Divorce is bad for the environment. A novel study that links divorce with the environment shows a global trend of soaring divorce rates has created more households with fewer people, has taken up more space and has gobbled up more energy and water. A statistical remedy: Fall back in love. Cohabitation means less urban sprawl and softens the environmental hit.

The findings of Jianguo "Jack" Liu and Eunice Yu at Michigan State University are published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

"Not only the United States, but also other countries, including developing countries such as China and places with strict religious policies regarding divorce, are having more divorced households," Liu said. "The consequent increases in consumption of water and energy and using more space are being seen everywhere."

Liu and his research assistant Yu started with the obvious -- that divorce rates across the globe are on the rise. Housing units, even if they now have few people in them, require resources to construct them and take up space. They require fuel to heat and cool. A refrigerator uses roughly the same amount of energy whether it belongs to a family of four or a family of two.

When they calculated the cost in terms of increased utilities and unused housing space per capita, they discovered that divorce tosses out economy of scale. Among the findings:

* In the United States alone in 2005, divorced households used 73 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity and 627 billion gallons of water that could have been saved had household size remained the same as that of married households. Thirty-eight million extra rooms were needed with associated costs for heating and lighting.

* In the United States and 11 other countries such as Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Greece, Mexico and South Africa between 1998 and 2002, if divorced households had combined to have the same average household size as married households, there could have been 7.4 million fewer households in these countries.

* The numbers of divorced households in these countries ranged from 40,000 in Costa Rica to almost 16 million in the United States around 2000.

* The number of rooms per person in divorced households was 33 percent to 95 percent greater than in married households.

To track what happens when divorced people returned to married life, the study compared married households with households that had weathered marriage, divorce and remarriage. The results: The environmental footprint shrunk back to that of consistently married households.

Liu, a University Distinguished Professor of fisheries and wildlife and Rachel Carson Chair in Ecological Sustainability at MSU's Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, has spent more than two decades integrating ecology with social sciences to understand the complex interrelationships between nature and humans and how those interactions affect the environment and biodiversity. Liu and Yu began to discuss this research project when Yu was a high school student.

This new work also acknowledges that divorce is not the only lifestyle trend changing family living structures -- the demise of multigenerational households, people remaining single longer are examples.

"People's first reaction to this research is surprise, and then it seems simple," Liu said. "But a lot of things become simple after research is done. Our challenges were to connect the dots and quantify their relationships. People have been talking about how to protect the environment and combat climate change, but divorce is an overlooked factor that needs to be considered."

The research, Liu said, shows that environmental policy is more complex than one single solution. Governments across the world may need to start factoring in divorce when examining environmental policy, Liu said.

"Solutions are beyond a single idea," Liu said. "Consider the production of biofuel. Biofuel is made from plants, which also require water and space. We're showing divorce has significant competition for that water and space. On the other hand, more divorce demands more energy. This creates a challenging dilemma and requires more creative solutions."

The research was funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health and the Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station.

[José]

Dans tous les cas mariez-vous. Si vous tombez sur une bonne épouse, vous serez heureux. Si vous tombez sur une mauvaise, vous deviendrez philosophe, ce qui est excellent pour l'homme.

[0100011]

Tant qu'on est dans le fil : le mariage fait grossir

(10/24/07-- RALEIGH) -- It's not just a myth that married couples gain weight.

Researchers at N.C. State followed almost 8,000 teens and young adults for five years. They all gained weight -- 15-30 pounds while married people gained 6-9 pounds more than singles.

[José]

…le mariage fait grossir

Pour ma part, empiriquement vérifié.

[0100011]

Pour ma part, empiriquement vérifié.

Et moi j'ai maigri après mon divorce !

[h16]

Moi, c'est stable. C'est grave ?

[POE]

Dans tous les cas mariez-vous. Si vous tombez sur une bonne épouse, vous serez heureux. Si vous tombez sur une mauvaise, vous deviendrez philosophe, ce qui est excellent pour l'homme.

Excellente citation !

L'homme "moderne" cherche davantage à être heureux qu'à être philosophe. Finalement, il n'est ni heureux ni philosophe.

Moi, c'est stable. C'est grave ?

Eh eh, non, c'est que tu fais la cuisine !

[xiii]

L'homme "moderne" cherche davantage à être heureux qu'à être philosophe. Finalement, il n'est ni heureux ni philosophe.

Il faut dire aussi qu'il est plus facile d'être philosophe sous le régime de la séparation des biens que sous le régime de communauté universelle …..

[Saucer]

Excellente citation !

L'homme "moderne" cherche davantage à être heureux qu'à être philosophe. Finalement, il n'est ni heureux ni philosophe.

[h16]

Eh eh, non, c'est que tu fais la cuisine !

Ca m'arrive. Mais ca n'explique pas tout, je pense.

[Invité jabial]

Il y a un an ou deux, j'étais jaloux de mes potes déjà mariés.

Maintenant, je plains mes potes déjà divorcés.

Finalement, le mariage, si c'est pour durer un an ou deux, c'est pas top.

[h16]

En gros, pour toi, le mariage, c'est un peu comme une forteresse assiégée : ceux qui sont à l'extérieur rêvent d'y rentrer, et ceux qui sont à l'intérieur rêvent d'en sortir…

[Invité jabial]

Non. J'ai un excellent exemple de mariage qui dure sans accrocs : celui de mes parents. Ce n'est pas le seul d'ailleurs. Ceci dit, tous ces couples qui durent ont une caractéristique : la place de l'homme et de la femme est bien définie au sein du couple. C'est pas politiquement correct, mais c'est comme ça.

[José]

…ca n'explique pas tout, je pense.

L'autre branche de la réponse est que ta femme cuisine mal.

…le mariage, si c'est pour durer un an ou deux, c'est pas top.

De fait.

[h16]

L'autre branche de la réponse est que ta femme cuisine mal.

Justement pas (et au contraire même), mais elle a des activités qui lui permettent sans aucun doute de brûler des calories surnuméraires.

[José]

…tous ces couples qui durent ont une caractéristique : la place de l'homme et de la femme est bien définie au sein du couple.

Le mariage étant une institution traditionnelle, avoir intégré les schémas traditionnels aide plus efficacement les mariés. Effectivement, ce n'est pas politiquement correct.

…mais elle a des activités qui lui permettent sans aucun doute de brûler des calories surnuméraires.

Ta femme te bat ?

[h16]

Ta femme te bat ?

Elle danse, sot.

D'ailleurs je compte bien sur toi pour lui indiquer les meilleurs endroits pour les cours

[José]

…lui indiquer les meilleurs endroits pour les cours

Elle danse quoi ?

[POE]

Le mariage étant une institution traditionnelle, avoir intégré les schémas traditionnels aide plus efficacement les mariés. Effectivement, ce n'est pas politiquement correct.

Tu parles de la loi naturelle ?

[DiabloSwing]

Ca m'arrive. Mais ca n'explique pas tout, je pense.

Tu as sans doute un métabolisme de base assez élevé ?

[José]

Tu parles de la loi naturelle ?

Non.

[POE]

Non.

Pourtant m'est avis qu'un nombre non négligeable de penseurs pensent que cela fait partie de la loi naturelle.

[José]

Pourtant m'est avis qu'un nombre non négligeable de penseurs pensent que cela fait partie de la loi naturelle.

Ce que l'on entend par tradition recouvre bien plus que la Loi naturelle. Certaines traditions africaines imposent des mutilations sexuelles à la jeune mariée. Rien à voir avec la Loi naturelle.

[Ash]

Non. J'ai un excellent exemple de mariage qui dure sans accrocs : celui de mes parents. Ce n'est pas le seul d'ailleurs. Ceci dit, tous ces couples qui durent ont une caractéristique : la place de l'homme et de la femme est bien définie au sein du couple. C'est pas politiquement correct, mais c'est comme ça.

Ils s'engueulent aussi très souvent.

[POE]

Ce que l'on entend par tradition recouvre bien plus que la Loi naturelle. Certaines traditions africaines imposent des mutilations sexuelles à la jeune mariée. Rien à voir avec la Loi naturelle.

Bien sûr, mais là tu sors du cadre de la discussion. Nous parlons, je pense, du mariage traditionnel.

Je pense que pour certains penseurs la loi naturelle implique de se marier, d'être fidèle, d'avoir des enfants, que le mari subvienne aux besoins de la famille, que la femme s'occupe de la maison, des enfants…

[Ash]

C'est justement ça le schéma traditionnel.

[POE]

C'est justement ça le schéma traditionnel.

Oui, j'essaie simplement de relancer un topic en montrant que la notion de loi naturelle n'est pas une notion évidente, elle nécessite donc une explicitation que j'attends toujours sur le topic adéquat.