"Relict" was an ancient term still used in colonial (British) America, and in England of that era, now archaic,for a widow; it has come to be a generic or collective term for widows and widowers. In historical linguistics, a relict is a word that is a survivor of a form or forms ...
Concerning loneliness, males scored lower than females, older than oldest old and married than divorced and widows/ers respectively. Divorced had lower loneliness than widowers, but with no significance. The internal consistency of the Quality of Life Index subscales ranged from 0.749 to 0.881, ...
There is another difference between New Order Amish and Old Order Amish worth mentioning here. Statistics show that New Order Amish tend tokeep a lower percentageof their children in the faith, somewhere around two-thirds (in comparison to the80-90% or higher retention rate of other Amishafffi...