Catherine Monk

Other researchers have seen this pattern of a decrease in male births related to traumatic cataclysmic events, one of them being President Kennedy's assassination and the other being the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York City.

The support could be from family and friends, it could be a sense of belonging in a religious community. It's the sense of social cohesion and social connectedness which research suggests is a buffer against the experiences of stress. It means you take a break from it.