"Wives?"
In 2024, 47.1% of households were headed by married couples, the second lowest share since 2022’s all-time low of 46.8%. The percentage of households with a married couple peaked 75 years ago: in 1949, it was 78.8%. That percentage has been below 50.0% since 2010, when the rate was 49.7%. In other words, less than half of American households have included a married couple for over a decade. - https://usafacts.org/articles/state-relationships-marriages-and-living-alone-us/
- prb.org
Add to that:
U.S. adults appear to spend more time in sedentary behavior than previously thought, and the majority of this time is accumulated at work and in leisure time. Reducing sedentary screen time during leisure in favor of physically active could be an important intervention target in the effort to increase physical activity in U.S. adults. Copyright © 2021 by the American College of Sports Medicine.
The analyses indicate that population life expectancy in the USA would be 2.00 years higher if adults reduced their time spent sitting to <3 h/day and 1.38 years higher if they reduced television viewing to <2 h/day. - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3400064/
- https://thewholeu.uw.edu/2015/01/16/sittingdisease/
- http://rd411.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-toll-of-sitting-all-day.html
Which is related to overall nationally yielding to seductive feelings in a prosperous modern society (which is a test), vs. Divine Truth, beginning with conscience and extending to Scripture and the leading of the Spirit of Christ:
Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord; (Romans 12:11)
Vs.
Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: (Proverbs 1:24-25)...Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices. For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them. (Proverbs 1:31-32)