Looking at suicide by gender in the U.S. over the last about 10 years, men commit suicide at about three times the rate of women. Having had children, the miracle of birth and life and child, goes a little deeper than "more emotionally committed" to a "belief." For mothers, I think having children does play a part in excusing suicide as an option, no matter what happens.
(I wouldn't say that women are less logical or more gullible - because they are women. I'd say the opposite is true). ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <s3raphita@...> wrote : I've sometimes mulled over the idea that as women are the sex who actually give birth they are necessarily more emotionally committed to the belief that life *must* be a good thing despite its obvious downsides. (If life is more trouble than it's worth and women are the ones responsible for transmitting life doesn't that make women guilty in some sense?) I wonder if part of the reason for women being attracted to the idea of an afterlife is precisely because it helps them insist on a more optimistic, positive view of our situation. Also, in occult and spiritualist-inclined groups women have long been considered the more psychic or sensitive sex. Even advanced male adepts in esoteric circles have relied on women to play the role of medium or scryer. Is that because women are more touchy-feely, less logical - even more gullible than men? Or is it that women are more open to hints and intuitions that men automatically censor out? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote : Women more likely to believe in God and the afterlife http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2919058/Women-likely-believe-God-afterlife-Two-thirds-faith-compared-half-men.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2919058/Women-likely-believe-God-afterlife-Two-thirds-faith-compared-half-men.html Women more likely to believe in God and the afterlife http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2919058/Women-likely-believe-God-afterlife-Two-thirds-faith-compared-half-men.html Two-thirds have faith compared to fewer than half of men. Sixty per cent of women believe in the afterlife but only 35 per cent of men, researchers with the UCL Ins... View on www.dailymail.co.uk http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2919058/Women-likely-believe-God-afterlife-Two-thirds-faith-compared-half-men.html Preview by Yahoo
