{"id":40840,"date":"2013-11-01T16:20:37","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T16:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/pew_research_center_is_divorce_contagious\/"},"modified":"2013-11-01T16:20:37","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T16:20:37","slug":"pew_research_center_is_divorce_contagious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40840","title":{"rendered":"(Pew Research Center) Is Divorce Contagious?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As if married people don&#8217;t have enough to worry about, a new study suggests that the divorce of a friend or close relative dramatically increases the chances that you too will divorce.<\/p>\n<p>A research team headed by Rose McDermott of Brown University analyzed three decades of data on marriage, divorce and remarriage collected from thousands of residents of Framingham, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p>McDermott and her colleagues found that study participants were 75% more likely to become divorced if a friend is divorced and 33% more likely to end their marriage if a friend of a friend is divorced.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2013\/10\/21\/is-divorce-contagious\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As if married people don&#8217;t have enough to worry about, a new study suggests that the divorce of a friend or close relative dramatically increases the chances that you too will divorce. A research team headed by Rose McDermott of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40840\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40840","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=40840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}