- "Divorced adults are more susceptible to severe emotional and psychological problems, plus early death from an assortment of causes, than for married individuals. The suicide rate for divorced white men, for example, is four times higher than for their married counterparts. The situation for divorced adults is such that Harold Morowitz of Yale University contends, ’Being divorced and a non-smoker is slightly less dangerous than smoking a pack or more a day and staying married.’"
Quoted in Bryce J. Christensen, "In Sickness and in Health: The Medical Costs of Family