{"id":2471,"date":"2012-02-05T09:00:31","date_gmt":"2012-02-05T14:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=2471"},"modified":"2012-02-04T02:19:25","modified_gmt":"2012-02-04T07:19:25","slug":"how-recessions-affect-rates-of-divorce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/how-recessions-affect-rates-of-divorce\/","title":{"rendered":"How Recessions Affect Rates of Divorce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/020412_0705_HowRecessio1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2470\" title=\"020412_0705_HowRecessio1.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/020412_0705_HowRecessio1-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"670\" height=\"446\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/020412_0705_HowRecessio1-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/020412_0705_HowRecessio1-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/020412_0705_HowRecessio1.jpg 1215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How does a financial downturn affect divorces among couples? Slate reports:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One would think that the increased financial strain would lead to more marital discord and thus higher rates of divorce. However the opposite is seen with states that have a higher unemployment rate having lower rates of divorce.<\/li>\n<li>This might be because getting a divorce is expensive.<\/li>\n<li>This might also explain why the divorce rate has increased as GDP per capita has increased \u2013 people increasingly have the resources to escape from dysfunctional marriages.<\/li>\n<li>Does this mean that there&#8217;ll be a surge in divorces once the economy recovers? Perhaps, but there should also be a surge in marriages as couples who were unable to get married finally have the opportunity to wed each other.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read more about the economics of divorce as well as what this means for America&#8217;s political system click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/business\/moneybox\/2012\/01\/recession_and_divorce_how_the_recovery_will_cause_a_boom_in_failed_marriages_and_why_it_s_good_news_.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/business\/moneybox\/2012\/01\/recession_and_divorce_how_the_recovery_will_cause_a_boom_in_failed_marriages_and_why_it_s_good_news_.html\">Slate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How does a financial downturn affect divorces among couples? Slate reports: One would think that the increased financial strain would lead to more marital discord and thus higher rates of divorce. However the opposite is seen with states that have a higher unemployment rate having lower rates of divorce. This might be because getting a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/020412_0705_HowRecessio1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2471"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2483,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471\/revisions\/2483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}