The CEO of Turkish Airlines wants his single pilots to get married. He believes it will provide them with some stability and prevent the kind of erratic behavior that contributed to a co-pilot authorities suspect deliberately crashed a plane into the French Alps, killing all on board.
Thursday, Temel Kotil, the CEO, "told new Turkish Airlines pilots that the March 24 crash in the French Alps showed that pilots lifestyles are important," wrote Liz Kimas for an article in The Blaze.
Kotil referred to new accounts that have indicated that Germanwings Flight 9525's destruction while flying between Barcelona and Duesseldorf might be related to the fact that co-pilot Andreas Lubitz and his girlfriend had recently split.
"Therefore, I am guiding those who are single toward marriage from this podium, Kotil was quoted as saying.
Dogan News Agency reported that Kotil also lamented that so few of the pilots with his airline are women, encouraging more females who are qualified to apply for jobs.
Kotil is not the first to connect marriage and happiness. Christopher Munsey for the American Psychological Association tells the story of best-selling author and Harvard psychology researcher Daniel Gilbert, whose mother told him to get married, get a good job and have kids if he wanted to be happy.
The search for happiness is a topic Gilbert pursued, and he wrote a book about it, "Stumbling on Happiness."
Gilbert's own conclusion is that a happy marriage increases happiness, not just any marriage. He notes that money's ability to boost happiness levels off above $70,000, based on other research. And personal happiness falls somewhat for both women and men after the birth of the first child possibly because of exhaustion.
Since not just any marriage will do, as most researchers agree, there are a lot of studies that address what makes a good marriage. One study recently highlighted in The Atlantic says age matters and the most successful marriages involve people who are the same age.
"A one-year discrepancy in a couple's ages, the study found, makes them 3 percent more likely to divorce (when compared to their same-aged counterparts); a 5-year difference, however, makes them 18 percent more likely to split up. And a 10-year difference makes them 39 percent more likely," wrote Megan Garber.
The organization For Your Marriage notes on its website that "People who are similar in their values, backgrounds and life goals are more likely to have a successful marriage." The group is an initiative of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Besides the boost in happiness provided by a good marriage, there are other tangible benefits for men and their families. Married men work "smarter, harder and more successfully," according to Brad Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project and a sociology professor at the University of Virginia. Wilcox made the remarks during a recent Wheatley roundtable on the family held at Brigham Young University.
Thursday, Temel Kotil, the CEO, "told new Turkish Airlines pilots that the March 24 crash in the French Alps showed that pilots lifestyles are important," wrote Liz Kimas for an article in The Blaze.
Kotil referred to new accounts that have indicated that Germanwings Flight 9525's destruction while flying between Barcelona and Duesseldorf might be related to the fact that co-pilot Andreas Lubitz and his girlfriend had recently split.
"Therefore, I am guiding those who are single toward marriage from this podium, Kotil was quoted as saying.
Dogan News Agency reported that Kotil also lamented that so few of the pilots with his airline are women, encouraging more females who are qualified to apply for jobs.
Kotil is not the first to connect marriage and happiness. Christopher Munsey for the American Psychological Association tells the story of best-selling author and Harvard psychology researcher Daniel Gilbert, whose mother told him to get married, get a good job and have kids if he wanted to be happy.
The search for happiness is a topic Gilbert pursued, and he wrote a book about it, "Stumbling on Happiness."
Gilbert's own conclusion is that a happy marriage increases happiness, not just any marriage. He notes that money's ability to boost happiness levels off above $70,000, based on other research. And personal happiness falls somewhat for both women and men after the birth of the first child possibly because of exhaustion.
Since not just any marriage will do, as most researchers agree, there are a lot of studies that address what makes a good marriage. One study recently highlighted in The Atlantic says age matters and the most successful marriages involve people who are the same age.
"A one-year discrepancy in a couple's ages, the study found, makes them 3 percent more likely to divorce (when compared to their same-aged counterparts); a 5-year difference, however, makes them 18 percent more likely to split up. And a 10-year difference makes them 39 percent more likely," wrote Megan Garber.
The organization For Your Marriage notes on its website that "People who are similar in their values, backgrounds and life goals are more likely to have a successful marriage." The group is an initiative of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Besides the boost in happiness provided by a good marriage, there are other tangible benefits for men and their families. Married men work "smarter, harder and more successfully," according to Brad Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project and a sociology professor at the University of Virginia. Wilcox made the remarks during a recent Wheatley roundtable on the family held at Brigham Young University.
