{"id":10303,"date":"2008-12-22T23:58:17","date_gmt":"2008-12-22T23:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/divorce_rates_drop_as_couples_realize_its_cheaper_to_stay_together\/"},"modified":"2008-12-22T23:58:17","modified_gmt":"2008-12-22T23:58:17","slug":"divorce_rates_drop_as_couples_realize_its_cheaper_to_stay_together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10303","title":{"rendered":"Divorce rates drop as couples realize it&#39;s cheaper to stay together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The recession and economic turmoil is creating a new class of casualties: Married couples who can&#8217;t afford to get divorced. In these tough times many people are finding it&#8217;s cheaper to stay together, even when they can&#8217;t stand each other.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The reason that the economy has such an enormous impact on divorce is that most people in the middle-income brackets are getting by on whatever income they have. They&#8217;re just getting by,&#8221; said Bonnie Booden, a family law and divorce attorney in Phoenix.<\/p>\n<p>A major factor in the divorce downturn, Booden said, is divorced couples have to establish two separate households with current funds &#8212; a prohibitive factor when you&#8217;re looking at divorce in tough economic times.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/news\/story\/story.aspx?guid={ED35EC99-9273-4A10-B437-A177F4EC4D4D}&#038;siteid=rss\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recession and economic turmoil is creating a new class of casualties: Married couples who can&#8217;t afford to get divorced. In these tough times many people are finding it&#8217;s cheaper to stay together, even when they can&#8217;t stand each other.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10303\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,149,98,596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-marriage-family","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}