Posted on 08/18/2009 5:36:26 PM PDT by NCjim
THE widespread tendency in Brazil for men to remarry women several decades younger than them, called the "Viagra effect", is undermining the country's pension system.
The report, by Brazil's National Social Security Institute, showed that a trend of men in their sixties marrying women half their age was leaving a big pool of young widows collecting benefits for much longer than anticipated.
"The social security system was planned so that the wife receives her husband's pension for only 15 years or so," the author of the study, Paulo Tafner, said.
"With growing life expectancy and remarriages with much younger women, benefits today stretch out over 35 years.
He said the younger-wife phenomenon was commonly called the "Viagra effect".
But he noted that in fact the trend started in the 1970s - well before the advent of the little blue pill that has since the mid-1990s helped men carry their sex lives well into old age.
According to the INSS report, two out of three men who are separated remarry, while only one out of three separated women find a new husband.
Of the separated men, 64 per cent of those aged over 50 remarry women younger than them.
In the 60-64 age range, the proportion is 69 per cent.
And the marked preference is for women aged 30 years and younger.
Brazil has a mixed public-private pensions system.
Those in the public system receive the equivalent of their salary after retirement, while those with private funds receive a maximum of $US1800 ($2180) a month.
Under current laws, when a retired man dies, his wife continues to receive his full pension until her own death.
According to the INSS, 94 per cent of pensions go to women.
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Looking at it from the women’s perspective, if they marry an old pensioner, they get a guaranteed income for life. The incentive would be to marry an old guy.
This has got to be hard on the system.
That’s my plan. I’ll be signing up for survivor benefits and hoping Mrs. ASA Vet lives a long long time after I’ve checked out.
I think this is what Mohammad was up to when he married the nine year old.
don’t worry. obamacare is “scalable.”
Not what Mohammad was up to but what the 9 year old’s mother was up to, or maybe Abu Bakr’s crony 30 years later when he needed to prove descent from the Prophet ~ so they created a fictional marriage and stuck it in the Hadiths.
An old man was 89-years-old and he wanted to marry a 24
year old girl. His son told him, “You can’t marry a 24-year-old
girl.” He said, “Why not?” The son said, “If you marry a
24-year-old girl, you’ll have to have sex with her and that
could be fatal!”
He thought about it a moment, shrugged his shoulders and
said, “Well if she dies, she dies.”
It’s the pension, not the Viagra, that’s the attraction.
I’ve used that joke myself, but I end it with, “Oh well, if she dies, she has a younger sister.”
In the US, where pension annuities are sold by the private sector, the price of the annuity, and/or the amount of the survivor benefit, are adjusted to compensate for spousal age differences. That’s because the private sector can do math.
Gee, this 65 year young Seasoned Citizen thinks he should start looking into relocating to the land of Down Under
Free viagra and the prospects of a young bride?
What more could an ol fart want, other than the new not-so-blushing bride owning a bar or liquor store? lol
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The last Confederate widow without offspring died in 2008
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Assuming she was 12 in 1866, she would have been born in 1854. That would put her at 154.
Not happening, sorry.
Perhaps you mean the last child born to a confederate widow?
If the youngest widow was born in 1854, and she had her child at 45, her child would have been born in 1899, and would have been 109, which is about right.
...among other things.
She was young when she married an elderly Confederate vet.
In 1934, 19 year old Maudie Acklin married William M. Cantrell, the 86 year old man she had been keeping house for. He died 3 years later, leaving her the house and 200 acres, and very few stories about his participation in the Civil War.
Cantrell was born in 1847 in Virginia and enlisted, at the age of 16, in French’s Battalion which was then in Pikeville, KY. On 15 April 1863, not long after he enlisted, he and about 90 other men were captured and sent to Camp Chase, OH. On 13 May 1863 he was ordered to be exchanged. After the war, he married. The 1870 census shows him and his wife Matilda C., and a 4 year old child named Alexander Crabtree, living in Floyd County, KY. He is listed as a farmer but 10 years later he and his wife are both listed as artists and still living in Floyd County. By 1900, they were living in Matney, Baxter County, AR. Other than young Alexander Crabtree, no children are present in their home during these censuses. Matilda died in 1929, and the aging William hired a young girl, Maudie Acklin (also from Baxter County) to keep house for him. Four years later, when she was 19 and he was 86, they married. She never told many people about their marriage because of local gossip concerning their age difference. He died in 1937 and she remarried twice.
I think I need to bone up on Portuguese...
Very interesting! Thank you. I learned something. :)
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