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...aspired to rich widowhood but she was born to be her generation's model of the eternal American blond. "I want to be the new Marilyn Monroe and find my own Clark Gable," she said in her Playboy interview when she was named Playmate of the Year in 1993. Her acting credits - Carrie Wisk, a daredevil helicopter pilot in the self-produced action move Skyscraper or Lucy, in another self-produced flick Illegal Aliens a tale of of space aliens rescuing Earth from evil - never matched Monroe's. Her short-lived reality show, "The Anna Nicole Show" was the highest...
What about the oft repeated recent finding that most U.S. households are no longer home to a married couple? That's true, but just barely, and it also has something to do with widowhood. Married-couple households now make up only 49.7% of the total. But roughly 52% of all households are headed by either a married couple or someone who has been widowed. The death of spouses should not be confused with the death of marriage...
Having the opportunity to say goodbye, even during a stress-filled period of caregiving, not only may make the mourning process a bit easier to bear but also just might point the way to the survivor's new identity in the world of widowhood. Sherron Driver, 62, was her husband James' caregiver for the last eight years of his life as he valiantly struggled with heart disease and respiratory ailments. "We talked a lot about life and death. He told me he wanted me to continue on with my life, to be a model for our children," recalls Driver...
Such powerful connections become even more important as the inevitable illnesses or widowhood of late life lead us to lean on the people we've known the longest. Even siblings who drift apart in their middle years tend to drift back together as they age. "The relationship is especially strong between sisters," who are more likely to be predeceased by their spouses than brothers are, says Judy Dunn, a developmental psychologist at London's Kings College. "When asked what contributes to the importance of the relationship now, they say it's the shared early childhood experiences, which cast a long...
Sociologists have consistently shown that the death of a spouse significantly increases the chances of the surviving partner’s death. But a recent Harvard study suggests that African-Americans do not experience this well-known “widowhood effect.” The study, conducted by Felix V. Elwert, a doctoral candidate in sociology, and Dr. Nicholas A. Christakis, a professor at Harvard Medical School, looked at trends among 400,000 married couples over the age of 67. The researchers found that white men are 18 percent more likely to die following the death of a wife...