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Married Women '4lbs Heavier Than Unmarried Counterparts' Women really do let themselves go when they get married according to a new study which found that they are 4lbs heavier than their unmarried counterparts. By Chris Irvine 24 Jan 2010 The study, published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, also found that they are 9lbs heavier if she has a baby. Queensland University in Australia, who conducted the research, followed 6,000 women aged between 18 and 23 over a 10 year period ending in 2006. Each woman periodically completed a survey with questions about weight, height, age, physical activity and...

Had only married women been allowed to vote in the 2006 elections, Republicans might still control the House of Representatives. Fifty percent of married women voting in those elections, the network exit poll revealed, opted for a Republican candidate for the House. Only 48 percent went for a Democratic candidate. On the other hand, had only unmarried women been allowed to vote, the House today might be almost entirely composed of Democrats. While 53 percent of the overall vote in U.S. House races in 2006 went to Democrats, 66 percent of the unmarried-woman vote went to Democrats. What does this...

'MORE taxes because I'm married ... what were they thinking?" That's the voice of a woman dubbed "Thinking Mom" in a new Bush campaign ad, and it's a voice that John Kerry needs to heed if he has any chance of being elected president. After the first presidential debate, Kerry improved markedly with a core Democratic constituency: single women, whose numbers are disproportionately elderly and black. But married women, genuine swing voters, still don't seem to like John Kerry. Unless those women warm up to him, it's hard to see how the Democrat can win. Even as Kerry's debate performance...