• m4xie@lemmy.ca
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    15 days ago

    Maybe some amount is the men that get their wives to handle their doctors appointments continuing to dump a lot of the work of the divorce on them?

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      15 days ago

      Just like the wives who make their men carry heavy things, do DIY construction and labor around the house, shovel snow in the cold, do all the dangerous tasks, etc.

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        14 days ago

        Please expand on that. What mechanism are you hypothesizing stemming from that observation to explain this statistic?