Men who served in combat more likely to get divorced, says study

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Men who served in combat more likely to get divorced, says study


By Jeffrey Cottrill



New research from Brigham Young University in Provo, UT says that men who served in combat in World War II and the Korean and Vietnam wars were more likely to get divorced at least once than other men of their generations. Although WWII veterans — both those who served in combat and those who didn’t — were generally better able make their marriages work than non-veterans of the period, combat veterans of all three wars as a whole were 62% more likely to get divorced.

     

Military service in one of those wars without combat duty had little apparent effect on the veterans’ marriages, the study found. But Korean War veterans were twice as likely as WWII veterans to get divorced and 26% more likely than non-veterans of the same generation. Even Vietnam veterans as a whole were able to keep their marriages together better than Korea ones.


“Korea was a harsh, bitter war that wasn’t popular at home,” Sven Wilson, an assistant professor of political science and one of the head researchers, told the Associated Press. “World War II veterans came home to great celebration. Korean War veterans came home and others didn’t want to hear about it.”


The study was based on government surveys of American families from the period between 1987 and 2004. Among the subjects, there were 1,600 war veterans, 623 of whom were involved in combat. Wilson and study co-author William Ruger observed the first marriages of men who were married before, during, or after their service.


“We believe you have to understand the social cost of war, especially as we weigh the advantages and disadvantages of fighting new wars. In some cases, maybe it’s not worth it,” Ruger told the Associated Press.

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