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A new study found that if your friends are splitting up, it will most likely happen to you. Taking the plunge into marriage is often a decision influenced by family and friends. It now also appears the choice to end marriage is strongly based on influence as well.

The study followed 12,000 people in Framingham, Massachusetts since 1948. According to new study from Brown University, knowing a friend, family member, or co-worker is getting divorced increases your risk of divorce by 75 percent. Even the divorce of a friend of a friend increases the chance by 33 percent.

Marriage therapist Sandra Kacher says divorce, as common as it is these days, can almost be like weight loss, smoking or even being happy. The more you see others close to you do it, the higher the possibility you could follow.

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Happy couples take note. A new study suggests that divorce spreads through a social group like a virus, with the breakup of a friend's marriage vastly increasingly the possibility of one's own nuptials ending. Researchers have dubbed the phenomenon "divorce clustering" and say a breakup between friends in your immediate social circle can increase your own chances of being divorced by 75 per cent.

Even a friend of a friend divorcing increases the likelihood of your own breakup by 33 per cent, the U.S. joint study by three academics from Brown University, Harvard University and the University of California says. The researchers examined statistics taken from a group of individuals over a 32-year period.

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Divorce is a tough thing for anyone to go through – it can be very hard on a person emotionally and physically. This is just as true for children. They will also need proper help during this difficult time.

Eventually you and your spouse will have to sit down together and make arrangements that will be suitable for you and your children. This will be much easier and less painful than having to go to court and have them decide this for you.

Don’t keep the divorce a secret from the children. You need to tell them about your decision to get divorced and what it will mean to them. Let them know that it was a mutual decision and that you both did your best to avoid a divorce.Make them understand that you and your spouse will not be getting back with each other and there is nothing they can do to make this change.

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If the family is the building block of society, then marriage is the foundation of the family. However, this foundation is growing weaker, with fewer adults entering into marriage, more adults leaving it in divorce.

Each year, over 1 million American children suffer the divorce of their parents. According to the Federal Reserve Board’s Survey of Consumer Finance.

Only 42 percent of children aged 14 to 18 live in a “first marriage” family. Mounting evidence in social science journals demonstrates.

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People who are considering a separation  may be better off seeking the advice of a divorce lawyer than remaining together for their children. This is the suggestion of a new study by researchers at Montclair State University in the US, which showed that unhappy couples who remain married could do their offspring more harm than good.

In fact, the children of people who divorced and maintained an amicable relationship apart were more likely to forge happy relationships of their own later in life, LiveScience.com reports. However, youngsters whose parents remained married but continued to fight went on to experience conflict in their later relationships.

Lead researcher Constance Gager commented: "Kids go through a one to two-year crisis period when their parents divorce, but they are resilient and they come back from that divorce." In May, legal adviser Nicola Matthews said in an article for North East Business that the divorce process can be made less difficult by employing a specialist family law solicitor from the beginning.

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Before you consider the time and expense of hiring an attorney you may first want to explore the benefits and advantages of hiring a mediator trained in divorce conflict. Using mediation shelters you and your children from the anxiety and emotional effects of divorce. For these reasons more divorcing couples are choosing Divorce Mediation.

Mediation permits separating and divorcing couples to take control, plan their own lives, and provides an atmosphere to continue communication and make joint decisions about the future of their children.

The compliance rate for mediation is higher because both parties, husband and wife, have jointly made the agreement. Clean Slate Mediation helps you explore all options and their consequences. We ensure that no party dominates or gives away too much or too little---there is balance and fairness.

In marriages with a lot of conflict, "staying together for the kids" might do more harm than good, a new study suggests.Children of parents who fight a lot yet stay married  experience more  conflict in their own adult relationships than children of parents who fight and do get a divorce.

"The basic implication is, 'Don't stay together for the sake of the children if you're in a high conflict marriage,'" said study researcher Constance Gager, of Montclair State University in New Jersey. Relationship surveysSome studies have shown children of divorced parents are more likely to get a divorce themselves, but it was not completely clear whether it was the divorce itself or the parents' conflict that had the greater impact on a child's relationships.

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 A study published by the Social Science Research Network has found that likelihood of divorce is influenced by the social network in which a person is involved. James H. Fowler and Rose McDermott of the Department of Political Science at the University of California, and Nicholas A. Christakis of Harvard University, utilized a longitudinal data set from the well-known Framingham-Heart Study to explore how social networks influence divorce.

"Divorce is the dissolution of a social tie, but it is also possible that attitudes about divorce flow across social ties," said Dr. Fowler. The researchers report that, "We find that divorce can spread between friends, siblings, and coworkers, and there are clusters of divorcees that extend two degrees of separation in the network."

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Breaking up is hard to do, unless everyone else is doing it too," say three social scientists in a new working paper. In the paper (hat tip to the New York Times blog Freakonomics), Rose McDermott, Nicholas A. Christakis and James H. Fowler argue that divorce can spread through circles of friends because social network influence a person's romantic and sexual practices. Using a 32-year sample, the study finds that "a person is 75 percent more likely to be divorced if a person that they are directly connected to is divorced."

The authors conclude:"Divorce appears to spread through social networks, and, in turn, exerts effects on the structure of the network itself, changing its character. In so doing, we suggest that attending to the health of one's friends' marriages serves to support and enhance the durability of one's own relationship."

Divorce is nothing new, especially in recent times. Divorce is a huge decision regarding breaking up of an important relationship after both the parties agree.

For most people, divorce is the last resort after they have tried everything to mend and repair the relationship.

Unfortunately, the rate of divorce has increased in the recent times and this could be because people are.

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