Is unfair divorce really leading men to deaths of despair?

New data from Denmark suggests not.

Does unfair family court drive men to suicide?

Data from a new study suggests the answer is no.

A new study found that single dads in Denmark have a markedly higher risk of early death from addiction, suicide and lung cancer.

This new information challenges the 50/50 parenting advocates’ assertion that unequal, sexist divorce laws rob men of their children and drive single dads to suicide. Here we see Danish single dads are among the most likely in the world have equal time with their kids and are still dying deaths of despair at rates much higher than that of single moms or married men.¹

Writes journalist Stephanie H. Murray on Family Stuff:

Denmark is an interesting place to study the connection between family structure and parental health because it has the highest share of single parent households in Europe, and one of the lowest rates of single parent poverty among OECD countries.

For clarity, the authors distinguish between partnered parents (who never experienced single parenthood), …