Friday, October 21, 2005

Divorce taking deadly toll on senior men Divorce in middle-age cuts a decade off a man's life, according to Shukan Post (10/28), which adds that Japan is bracing itself for a wave of split marriages when baby boomers start retiring in a couple of years. Japan's divorce rate peaked in 2002, when 289,838 couples untied the knot, and though the rate has declined marginally ever since, splitting up appears to have fatal consequences for the country's men. 2:42:21 PM    comment []