Finland retains many titles: Life-satisfaction, suicide rate, Alzheimer's rate, and children have mental issues due to [women's] home conflicts and misandry

Finland retained the title of having the highest life-satisfaction among 150 countries on planet Earth for the sixth consecutive year. But, Finland also top two other rankings: (1) the highest suicide rate in Fennoscandia plus Denmark for the 33rd consecutive year, (2) highest Alzheimer's rate on a global scale. Three times as many Finnish men commit suicide compared to Finnish women, and two out three Alzheimer's cases affect women. According to: (a) Helsingfors Police, women's relational aggressiveness is their biggest issues, (b) Finland's ministry of Education, too many Finnish children fail reading comprehension and numeracy, (c) Finland’s child commissary, 265 000 kids and young Finnish people have mental issues. Children's mental health is typically explained by the home environment, which is typically ruled by women. On this science blog, many cases demonstrate that relational aggressive women hurt children by interacting with the social service to isolate the children from their fathers. With support from social service. Paradoxically, studies show that women relational aggressiveness (psychological domestic violence) is related to Borderline Personality Disorder (BPS), that the people at the social service work is not evidence-based, and that children who grow up with both parents or the father have better executive functions (emotional and social adjustment as well as cognitive development) compared to children who grow up with the mothers. Further, women's relational aggression seems to be related with Alzheimer's disease. 9 pages.

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Finland retained the title of having the highest life-satisfaction among 150 countries on planet Earth for the sixth consecutive year. The Factors used for the model are: social support, income, health, freedom, generosity, and the absence of corruption. The inference is based on an inquiry which was filled in by a thousand people. But for some reason, the list does not include happiness?

Helsinki Times, March, 20, 2023.

Link to source.

There are question-marks.

1. Why did they use happiness and not life-satisfaction in the label of the report?
   
   
2. did they sample data from both of Finland's two main cultures?
   
   
3. is happiness really prevalent in Finland?

Finland mainly consists of two cultures:

1. the longstanding Swedish-Finnish trading culture in the south and south-west, as well as along the coastline where most people (86%) live
   
   
2. a Uralic culture mainly in the north and north-east.

The trading culture emerged in what is now the kingdom of Sweden, after a massive migration from the lower Volga ~4500 years before the present (Haak et al. 2015).

Before the kingdom of Sweden was Svitjod, a seafaring trade network – 'skeppslaget' – Roden, and three folkland's: Attundaland, Fjädrundaland (later Fjärdhundraland), and Tiundaland.

Roden stretched from Hamrångefjärden to Kalmar, and the northern part of Roden was also called Tiundalands rod.

The interest in trading was likely based on exogamy which I argue is equivalent, or correlate, with entrepreneurial thinking – the “knowledge structures” that people use to make judgments and decisions that involve the evaluation, creation and growth of opportunities (Cacciolatti och Lee, 2015; Mitchell et al. 2002; Österberg, 2012).

In the 9th century, chieftains in Satakunda (now divided into Satakunta and Birkaland), on the eat side of the Gulf of Bothnia, applied to join Roden's/Tiundaland rod's/Svitjod's maritime trade network (Klinge, 1985).

The trade language of Svitjod became the trading language around the Gulf of Bothnia and the Baltic sea.

They had already established trading places like Holmgård (Novgorod) and Gårdarike (Kiev), and they established at least 28 trading places in the eastern part of the kingdom, starting with Åbo. Here's a list:

Åbo (1229), Viborg (1293), Borgå (1346), Pernå (N=28; 1352), Ulvsby (försvann, ersattes senare av Björneborg) (1365), Raumo (1442), Nådendal (1443), Ekenäs (1546), Helsingfors (1550), Björneborg (1558), Uleåborg (1605), Vasa (1606), Nystad (1617), Nykarleby (1620), Gamlakarleby (1620), Torneå (1621), Tavastehus (1639), Nyslott (1639), Villmanstrand (1649), Brahestad (1649), Kristinestad (1649), Kajana (1651), Jakobstad (1652), Fredrikshamn (1653), Lovisa (1745), Tammerfors (1779), Kuopio (1782) och Kaskö (1785).

1240. Holmgård (Novgorod) declared independence from Svitjod.

1456. A university was  founded in Greifswald. After the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, Greifswald became a part of Sweden.

1477. A university was founded in Uppsala, in former Tiundaland.

1581. Swedish king Johan III crowned the Eastern part of the Swedish kingdom a grand duchy.

1640. They had established a Royal Academy in Åbo.

The implication: renaissance, science revolution, and enlightenment (McKneown, 2009; Widmalm, 2012), which lasted until ~1810.

While most people in the eastern part of the kingdom spoke the trading language, tribes in the inland, towards Karelia, spoke other, Uralic languages which no longer exist. In 1543 – 48, a Swedish priest from Pernåbygd, Mikael Olofsson (1507 – 1557) decided to baptize people in these tribes. For that purpose, he created a standardized version of their tribal languages in three publications. In 1551, he also published a record of their gods. One of them was Ilmarinen, the god of air. Olofsson changed his name to Agrikola. Later, the 'k' in the name was replaced by a 'c'.

Agricola's work was continued by Henrik Gabriel Porthan (1739 – 1804), a professor of philosophy and rector for The Royal Academy of Åbo. Dr. Porthan was a Fennophile, basing his writing about Finnish history on mythology and folk poetry. Some myths probably originated from Agricola.

1808. Russia invaded the eastern part of the Swedish kingdom and eventually the Swedish fortress Sveaborg (1748 –). Vice Admiral Cronstedt surrendered. The following year, a 108-year occupation began of the former grand duchy.

Sveaborg (image source).

Two years after Russia's invasion, the Fennoman movement, basically Dr. Porthan's mythological approach to uralic-finnish history, emerged. The former eastern part of the Swedish kingdom became a vassal state of Russia, on paper, on continuation of the grand duchy.

Russia, once ruled by Svitjod, wanted to suppress the relationship between the newly conquered land and Sweden& – Russia's arch enemy. The likely reason, probably inspired by the bible and the story about Nimrod and the tower of Babel:

“God observed that the people were united by one language, allowing them to pursue prideful, independent plans. He said, If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them,” (Gemini).

In 1863, tsar Alexander II (1818 - 1881) added a language, but he didn't choose Russian but one of the Uralic languages standardized by Agricola!?

1917. The people declared independence from their oppressors, and founded the republic of Finland. Note. At this point, the trade language around the Gulf of Botnia was still the majority language.

The Uralic language didn't reach a break even until ~1925 (plus/minus 15 years), That coincided with a stagnation.

In 1939/1941, the Soviet union (1917 – 1991) invaded Finland. Sweden came to the rescue to support Finland's independence.

In the late 1950s, Finland, but not Sweden, became one of the countries in the Seven Countries study (SCS).

SCS aimed to test something called the diet-heart hypothesis – the idea that saturated fats elevate serum cholesterol which was hypothesized to increase the probability to contract cardiovascular disease (CVD). Data was sampled from Åbo – mainly speaking the Finland's and Sweden's trade language – and North Karelia – typically inhabited by uralic Finns.

The result showed that whereas 995 out of 10 000 people in North Karelia died from CVD, 300 out of 10 000 people met the same faith in Åbo (Teicholz, 2014). The difference is a marker for where welfare diseases have the biggest prevalence in Finland.

Important note: The diet-heart-hypothesis has been rejected (Astrup, 2020; Howard et al. 2006; Ramsden et al. 2016).

In 2019, Mark Pagel conducted his Gifford talks. Typically, the speaker gets one hour to do one talk. Dr Pagel made 4 talks. In the third talk, he spoke about tribalism. His first example was Papa new Guinea. The second example was Finland (Pagel, 2019).

In April of 2022, Helsingfors police department said that relational aggressiveness (Crick and Grotpeter, 1995; Hyde, 2005) among Finnish women is a huge issue. Finnish women typically speak uralic-finnish.

In May 2022, a director at the Finnish ministry of education and culture said that too many Finnish kids fail reading comprehension and numeracy. The latter is the precursor for instrumental and epistemic rational thinking (Stanovich, 2011, 2016; Toplak, West, and Stanovich, 2013; Toplak and Stanovich, 2002).

In November 2022, at a conference about Children's rights, Finland's child commissary – Elina Pekkarinen – said that 20% of Finnish kids and young born 1997 or later, have mental issues. The prevalence is lower among the Swedish speaking Finns. Pekkarinen, who has earned a PhD in political studies, claimed that the reason 265 000 Finnish kids and young people have mental issues should be explained by the climate and neuro-psychiatry. When I asked if she had control for women's relational aggressiveness, Pekkarinen replied that she didn't know what that is, but that she wanted to talk with me about it.

In February 2023, a researcher from Helsingfors city said that Finns who speak Swedish have better health and live longer.
And contrary to the claim about happiness, in 2023, Finland also retained the title – most suicides among the Nordic countries for the thirty-third (33) consecutive year!

Our World in data show that Finland was at the top of the suicide-ranking between from 1990 to 2019:

Suiside rate 1990-2019.

Adding to that, World population review shows that in 2023, Finland is still at the top of the suicide-ranking.

World Population Review.

Link to source.

The data from World population review reveal that the suicide-rate among men is three times higher compared to women!!!!!

According to statistics Finland: 10,673 people died because of dementia in 2020. If 60-70 % of these people suffered from Alzheimer's, that means that 6000 – 7000 Finnish people died because of Alzheimer's in 2020. The same amount of people died from dementia (including Alzheimer's) in 2019. According to World health ranking, Finland is the number one Dementia and Alzheimer's country on the planet.

Also read: Is Alzheimer's Disease just another form av diabetes? The case of Finland

The big questions are:

1. why are women's relational aggressiveness to prevalent in Finland?
   
   
2. whydo so many Finnish kids have issues with reading comprehension and numeracy?
   
   
3. Why do so many Finnish boys fail school?
   
   
4. Why do so many kids and young people (265 000) in Finland have mental issues?
   
   
5. Why do Finland top the suicide ranking in Fennoscandia plus Denmark?
   
   
6. Why are most of them men?
   
   
7. Why does Finland top the global Alzheimer's ranking?
   
   
8. Why do most of the dementia (Alzheimer's) cases affect women?

In another article, Helsinki Times reports that young Finnish people struggle because of home-conflicts.

Helsinki Times, March 22, 2023.

Link to source.

In the article, they attribute the conflict to both parents. This is probable due to the fact that social workers and court personnel (judges) are known for having a mother-bias (Mater Semper certa est – the motherhood-presumtion). This is also referred to as misandry – the hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against men.

But a conflict is never mutual, but defined as when one of two parties does not accept a disagreement or viewpoint diversity.

Research on intimate partner violence using established models such as the Conflict Tactics Scale (CTS; Straus, 1979; Straus et al. 1996) shows the following distribution:

• Physical violence – women account for slightly more than half of occurrences and injuries.
  
  
• Lethal violence – equally unlikely (0.0000005) to affect children, men or women (Liem och Koenraadt, 2008). Psychological violence (relationship aggression) – typically female.
  
  
• Psychological violence (relational aggressiveness) includes parental alienation.

(Archer,2000, 2004; Bates, Graham-Kevan och Archer , 2014; Bates och Graham-Kevan, 2016; Bates, 2018; Bates, Kaye, Pennington och Hamlin, 2019; Bergkvist, 2002; Crick och Grotpeter, 1995; Hyde, 2005; Thornton et al. 2012).

Listen to Dr Elizabeth Bates: Intimate Partner Violence (34 minuter).

Interpartner or domestic conflicts are typically instigated by women.

In a series of articles on this blog (in Swedish) labeled [Ytterligare) ett fall ... it was shown that:

1. relational aggressive mothers often suffered from mental issues, e. g. high degree of neuroticism (Jiang, Dong och Wang, 2022; Ode et al. 2009; Weisberg et al. 2011), and Borderline Personality Disorder) (Zalewski et al. 2014). Vegetarianism is also related to neuroticism, Anxiety, and depression (Dobersek et al. 2023; Ede, 2019).
   
   
2. that social workers do not follow science, but systematically used women's mental issues as an excuse to trigger conflicts against the children's father-relations, i.e., misandry – the hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against men (Bergström et al. 2022).

Data from Sweden and the US demonstrates that people working as judges in court's discriminate children's father-relations in 75 % of the cases (Biringen and Harman, 2018; Elfver-Lindström, 1999; Schiratzki, 2008; Österberg, 2004).

Link to source.

Paradoxically, father-relations has a normative influence on children's early development of the executive functions; children who grow up with both parents or with a father have better emotional and social adjustment and cognitive development (including visuospatial perception) compared to children who grow up with a mother (Baker et al. 2020; Farran och Formby, 2011; LaFlamme et al. 2012; Macrae, 2021; Olsson, 2022; Rolle et al. 2019; Sethna, 2017; Vieno et al. 2009, 2014; Österberg, 2004).

And in Finland, the media recently reported about mothers with mental issues who harmed and killed their kids. Here are two examples: (1) Mamma dödade sitt barn och sig själv – nu utreder polisen barnskyddet; (2) Mamma försökte döda sitt 5-åriga barn i Borgå.

Men's depression, which may lead to suicide, is correlated with women's domestic violence (Macassa et al. 2023).

Ergo. Life-satisfaction and happiness may overlap to some extent but they represent different concepts. Life-satisfaction may be more prevalent in the South of Finland, where the population is more sense and the socio-culture is typically Swedish-oriented. The common source of variation for absence of mental health among Finnish children and men, including mens suicide, seems to be explained by women's domestic violence, which in turn is explained mental issues, e.g. high degree of neuroticism and Borderline Personality Disorder, social workers aggression against children's father-relations. Are women with mental challenges who instigate conflicts in the home the same ones who will later suffer from Alzheimer's disease?

Read (in Swedish).Barnrättsdagarna, Helsingfors. Socialtjänstpersonal bör beakta faster Fiffi inom sig.

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