Given the increasing concern about health care costs for the aging population, Karraker believes policymakers should be aware of the relationship between disease and risk of divorce.

Given the increasing concern about health care costs for the aging population, Karraker believes policymakers should be aware of the relationship between disease and the risk of divorce.

There are also the opportunity costs: what cures for disease, what other useful discoveries might we never know of, because a habitat is destroyed forever, or land is polluted beyond all use?