I just read that study, and as an actual scientist, with research experience; I'm legit laughing at the error bars that seem to be near enough bigger than their data. N=500? Lmao. That's not a study, how long did it take them to find these patients willing to take part? Five years apparently. Mad.
I like that they also identify 8 other studies that don't agree with their findings; but then just casually breeze over that issue; and also offer no real explanation. Their data indicates that they find most of the impacted area is around younger couples; they can't sus out why though? Jeez, why might younger couples, where there is a high degree of commitment in theory, but little practical joining, have a trend where they might break up more on the mans side? It's not like cancer treatments frequently can damage the womens fertility.
I'd like to offer a suggestion: The drugs kill the ladies baby maker, and the man goes 'Oh, no sorry I want kids; and since I'm willing to marry I am actively looking to settle down.' So he dips because of that. I'm assuming their data is even valid though, when by the rest of the studies around it, it isn't lol. To be fair, those studies also have uptakes of less than 500, so that study did pretty well. There's a
2022 literature review that seems to support my idea, where the rates of babymaker
breaking cancers caused a spike in divorces during and right after treatment. I'd expect to see something similar with testicular cancer among married couples but longer term as the fertility options for storing mens reproductive material are just better; so there's probably a longer attrition window.
It's sociology; it's not a real study.
Though it is absolutely fucking
vile to divorce a spouse over them going through something rough like cancer, or
losing a job.