An interesting scientific study out of California discovered that married people had a better chance at surviving cancer than unmarried people. Recently, researchers examined the California cancer registry and its 783,167 patients fighting all types of cancer. Comparing that data with health insurance and neighborhood-level data helped gauge how much the patients had, economically speaking. The results suggested that putting a ring on the finger helped in the cancer fight later on down the road. “The risk of death among unmarried men was 27 percent higher, and among unmarried women 19 percent higher, than among the married,” The New York Times reported. “But even after adjusting for socioeconomic factors, unmarried men still had a 22 percent higher mortality risk and unmarried women a 15 percent higher risk than the married.”

As Hot Air’s John Sexton noted, the study could have pointed to the fact that people who are more likely to get married get along with others more and have better mental health. But what comes first, the chicken or the egg? The point we get from this study is that marriage has numerous societal benefits — who knows what other benefits we’ll discover in the future? Man is not meant to live alone, and there’s a reason God designed marriage a certain way.