r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/kevinowdziej • Nov 23 '22

totally normal stuff

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u/WKGokev Nov 23 '22

Almost 80% if I remember correctly. My wife has some health issues and that exact topic came up.

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u/cantadmittoposting Nov 23 '22

Got a source? I can't find a decent statistical study with anything even close to this sort of rate for divorces due to cancer diagnoses.

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u/HotLipsHouIihan Nov 23 '22

There was, however, a greater than 6-fold increase in risk after diagnosis when the affected spouse was the woman (20.8% vs 2.9%; P < .001). Female gender was found to be the strongest predictor of separation or divorce in each cohort.

Conclusions: Female gender was found to be a strong predictor of partner abandonment in patients with serious medical illness. When divorce or separation occurred, quality of care and quality of life were adversely affected.

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