Comments on: New Study Suggests There Is Perceived Safety in Marriage

By: roxanne

roxanne — Wed, 16 May 2012 20:26:43 +0000

May want to ask yourself if “PERCEIVED” safety is the same as the real thing. In most cases, the answer is probably no.

By: Grant Woods

Grant Woods — Tue, 15 May 2012 23:06:25 +0000

Lack of money does not equal fear, but the lack of stability and high crime sure does. I know that if I lived in an area that was a target for high crime rates, then I sure do want a partner with me that we can talk about this together and maybe work on staging soome kind of event in our community to help the young people deal with some of the issues we are all facing together. get the police involved, get the teens to see that there is a better life out there, amd do this with someone who believes in this just as strongly as you do.

By: Benita

Benita — Tue, 15 May 2012 11:12:38 +0000

The sad thing about this story is that many people who live in these high crime neighborhoods are the ones for whom steady and stable marriages can be the most elusive. They are the ones who have higher rates of births out of wedlock and for whatever reasons, they seem to hold on to single parenthood longer than some other communities would. I don’t say this to sound prejudiced, but I say this as an encouragement for us to promote marriage and lasting marriage. It has been studied many times over, and there is a sense of safety among married families that families without that do not have.