Domingo, 6 de Junio, 2021
Notiica publicada el 11/03/2021
El estudio que aporta el dato del título de la noticia es del Doctor Kposowa
- en comparación con las mujeres divorciadas, los hombres separados tenían nueve veces más probabilidades de suicidarse
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Por cada mujer divorciada que se quita la vida, hay nueve hombres divorciados que lo hacen
- El doctor Kpsosowa, sugirió que la sociedad subestima la fuerza de los vínculos entre padres e hijos y, por lo tanto, el efecto traumático de romper esos vínculos a través de lo que suele arreglarse en las custodias. Además, no apreciamos el impacto financiero catastrófico del divorcio en los hombres y la ira y el resentimiento engendrados por las pérdidas tanto de propiedades como de estatus a raíz de un acuerdo de divorcio.
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La eurodiputada Teresa G. Barbat explicó en un vídeo en 2019 que la pérdida de apoyo social y emocional en la ruptura de a familia, los sentimientos de vergüenza y estigma que acompañan al divorcio y el trato que los hombres reciben en los juzgados de familia podrían ser las causas que explicaran los suicidios posteriores a una separación traumática entre una pareja.
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la psicóloga sanitaria Ana Belén Medialdea: "La mayoría de las personas hemos crecido sin educación emocional. En muchas ocasiones, no sepamos qué hacer ante una persona que se encuentra deprimida. Una de las cosas que se suele hacer a la hora de intentar ayudar a una persona que está atravesando una depresión, es con la mejor de las intenciones, intentar animarla y hacerla razonar con frases positivas. Lo que ocurre con esto, es que, en vez de ayudarla, lo que se produce es el efecto contrario. Porque cuando intentamos animar a una persona que está triste, no estamos empatizando con su dolor y su sufrimiento.
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el doctor Glenn Sullivan en 'Psychology Today': "El gran experto en suicidios estadounidense Edwin Shneidman observó que la coherencia es una de las características comunes de todos los suicidios; es decir, las muertes de las personas tienden a reflejar sus vidas; si miramos lo suficientemente de cerca, se puede discernir un patrón que rastrea los elementos de la vida de una persona hasta la dinámica que rodea su muerte. Siempre es importante recordar que perdemos a seres humanos individuales por suicidio, cada uno a su manera, por razones que le son propias. Cuando hacemos afirmaciones simplistas como 'el divorcio provoca suicidio', corremos el riesgo de perder de vista las tragedias individuales involucradas".
Estudio del Doctor Kposowa
J Epidemiol Community Health 2003;57:993–995
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Divorce and suicide risk
There is accumulating evidence that divorced
and separated people have much higher
suicide rates than their married counterparts.
In a previous paper published in this journal,
it was observed that divorced and separated
men were nearly 2.4 times more likely to kill
themselves than their married counterparts.1
That study, however, failed to directly compare divorced men and women. While it
informed us that divorced people are at
higher risk of suicide than the married, it
said nothing about the suicide risk of
divorced men relative to divorced women.
The purpose of this communication is to
assess the magnitude of the differentials in
suicide risk between the two groups, and
explore possible reasons that might explain
the disparities.
Data were obtained from the US National
Longitudinal Mortality Study (NLMS), 1979–
1989,2 and covariates used were taken from
Kposowa.1 The response variable was the risk
of suicide, and analysis was restricted to
divorced and separated non-Hispanic white
men and women. Proportional hazards
regression models were fitted to the data,
and relevant results are in table 1.
Model 1 presents the age adjusted effects
of sex on the risk of suicide. Divorced men
were over eight times more likely to commit
suicide than divorced women (RR = 8.36,
95% CI = 4.24 to16.38). After taking into
account other factors that have been reported
to contribute to suicide, divorced men still
experienced much increased risks of suicide
than divorced women. They were nearly 9.7
times more likely to kill themselves than
comparable divorced women (RR = 9.68, 95%
CI = 4.87 to 19.22). Put another way, for
every divorced woman that committed suicide, over nine divorced men killed themselves.
These results dramatise the terrible consequences of being a divorced man in
America, and lead to the question: why are
divorced men killing themselves? Some
analysts argue that the research community
has ignored a plausible explanation for
the excess suicide risks experienced by
divorced men. As Perrault3 and Farrell4
observe, while social, psychological, and even
personal problems facing women are readily
denounced, societal institutions tend to
ignore or minimise male problems as evident
in suicide statistics. For instance, in many
jurisdictions in the US there seems to be an
implicit assumption that the bond between a
woman and her children is stronger than that
between a man and his children.5 As a
consequence, in a divorce settlement, custody
of children is more likely to be given to the
wife. In the end, the father loses not only his
marriage, but his children. The result may be
anger at the court system especially in
situations wherein the husband feels
betrayed because it was the wife that
initiated the divorce, or because the courts
virtually gave away everything that was
previously owned by the ex-husband or the
now defunct household to the former wife.
Events could spiral into resentment (toward
the spouse and ‘‘the system’’), bitterness,
anxiety, and depression, reduced self esteem,
and a sense of ‘‘life not worth living’’. As
depression and poor mental health are
known markers of suicide risk, it may well
be that one of the fundamental reasons for
the observed association between divorce
and suicide in men is the impact of post
divorce (court sanctioned) ‘‘arrangements’’.
Clearly this is an issue that needs further
investigation.
A J Kposowa
Department of Sociology, University of California,
1214 Watkins Hall, 900 University Avenue, Riverside,
CA 92521, USA; ajkposowa@att.net
References
1 Kposowa AJ. Marital status and suicide in the
National Longitudinal Mortality Study. J Epidemiol
Community Health 2000;54:254–61.
2 National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.
National Longitudinal Mortality Study 1979–
1989 [Machine-readable public use data tape].
Bethesda, MD: National Institutes of Health,
1995.
3 Perrault C. And if we speak about men? Sante
Ment Que 1990;15:134–44.
4 Farrell W. The myth of male power. New York:
Simon and Schuster, 1993.
5 Furstenberg FF, Sherwood KE, Sullivan ML.
Caring and paying: what fathers and mothers say
about child support. New York: Manpower
Demonstration Research, 1992.
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Fuente:
Por qué el divorcio puede ser potencialmente peligroso, especialmente para los hombres
https://www.elconfidencial.com/amp/alma-corazon-vida/2021-03-11/divorcio-potencialmente-peligroso-hombres-razon_2973416/
