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	<title>Ruth Institute Blog &#187; Divorce</title>
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		<title>15 Predictors of Divorce</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/07/11/15-predictors-of-divorce/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/07/11/15-predictors-of-divorce/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 21:36:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arlemagne1</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Divorce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Happy Marriage]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I posted about Professor John Gottman.  He has a list of four things that predict divorce:  criticism, defensiveness, contempt and stonewalling.   He calls them the four horsemen of the apocalypse.
Here&#8217;s a different sort of list.  It compiles various research studies and makes predictions about the likelihood of divorce given some more exotic variables such [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Children protect against divorce contagion</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/07/08/children-protect-against-divorce-contagion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/07/08/children-protect-against-divorce-contagion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 21:44:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Divorce]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is interesting. Yet another reason having kids is a good thing.
by Carolyn Moynihan
A study showing the contagious nature of divorce among social networks has been receiving a good bit of attention this week. Not only friends, siblings and people you work with, but also friends of friends are more likely to divorce if you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Breaking Up is Hard to Do, Unless Everyone Else is Doing it Too&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/07/08/breaking-up-is-hard-to-do-unless-everyone-else-is-doing-it-too/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/07/08/breaking-up-is-hard-to-do-unless-everyone-else-is-doing-it-too/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 18:26:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norrie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Divorce]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr J&#8217;s latest podcast features her latest interview with Todd Wilken over at Issues, Etc, where they discuss cluster divorce.  The study they cite (spearheaded by Brown University&#8217;s Dr. Rose McDermott and available in entirety here) finds that when your friends divorce, you&#8217;re more likely to split from your spouse&#8211;75% more likely, to be specific [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Gottman on Lifelong Married Love</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/07/06/john-gottman-on-lifelong-married-love/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/07/06/john-gottman-on-lifelong-married-love/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 16:51:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arlemagne1</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Divorce]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my previous post, I discussed Fred Reed&#8217;s writings.  I quoted a heartbreaking scene which he wrote about the consequences of divorce and the pain of fathers being separated from their children.  Divorce is awful.
In the comments Wintery Knight appreciated our take on this subject.  His comments seem to show that he appreciates the dangers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fred on Hooking Up&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/07/04/fred-on-hooking-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/07/04/fred-on-hooking-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 02:37:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arlemagne1</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Divorce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fathers' Rights]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fred Reed writes some provocative stuff.  I often disagree with him, but he&#8217;s smart as a whip and always interesting.  In this article, he takes on hooking up.
I see where women, or college girls anyway, are honking and blowing most fierce about how they don’t like the way sex works nowadays. Yeah. It seems that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kids First, Marriage Later &#8211; If Ever???</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/07/04/kids-first-marriage-later-if-ever/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/07/04/kids-first-marriage-later-if-ever/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 02:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>leland</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Divorce]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As part of its Newly Wed In America series, National Public Radio today aired a segment titled Kids First, Marriage Later &#8212; If Ever.
A couple of quotes:
&#8220;Many of these parents are children of divorce&#8230; Today, these parents say they&#8217;d rather raise a child alone or with multiple partners than risk putting that child through a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smart Sex</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/06/29/smart-sex-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/06/29/smart-sex-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 19:54:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norrie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[college students]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The newest podcast, Dr J&#8217;s interview with Sacred Heart radio, is now up here.    In it, she discusses how the quest for lifelong married love is hampered, not enabled, by the sexual revolution; there&#8217;s also a discussion of divorce&#8217;s effects on the current college-age student.
Smart Sex
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		<title>The Focusing Illusion</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/06/17/the-focusing-illusion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/06/17/the-focusing-illusion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 02:53:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arlemagne1</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Divorce]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=2828</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Many of the discussions in the comments section of this site fall into a very familiar pattern.  Take, for instance, one issue that we here at the Ruth Institute support: lifelong marriage.  Lifelong marriage means that we are not particularly fond of divorce.  (I&#8217;m sure my opinion as a Jew differs from that of Dr. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“Cumulative Number of Women’s Lifetime Sexual Partners” by Religious Attendance and Present Family Structure</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/06/07/%e2%80%9ccumulative-number-of-women%e2%80%99s-lifetime-sexual-partners%e2%80%9d-by-religious-attendance-and-present-family-structure/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/06/07/%e2%80%9ccumulative-number-of-women%e2%80%99s-lifetime-sexual-partners%e2%80%9d-by-religious-attendance-and-present-family-structure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 21:29:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Divorce]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Pat Fagan of the Family Research Council
Women in always-intact marriages who worship at least weekly are more likely to have had fewer lifetime sexual partners than those in other family structures who never worship. According to the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG), women in always-intact marriages who attend religious services at least weekly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stuart Schneiderman on the Gores&#8217; divorce</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/06/03/stuart-schneiderman-on-the-gores-divorce/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/06/03/stuart-schneiderman-on-the-gores-divorce/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 21:07:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arlemagne1</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Divorce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Happy Marriage]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=2623</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Life Coach Dr. Stuart Schneiderman offers some thoughts as to why the forty year marriage of Al and Tipper Gore might have ended.

I will  speculate that the Gore marriage fell apart because Al Gore fell in  love with something else. Not with another woman, not with another  person, but with a cause. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘You can’t be happier than your wife’</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/05/24/%e2%80%98you-can%e2%80%99t-be-happier-than-your-wife%e2%80%99/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/05/24/%e2%80%98you-can%e2%80%99t-be-happier-than-your-wife%e2%80%99/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 21:34:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Divorce]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=2478</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An interesting study. More insight into factors that can break up marriages. Ruth Instute friend Brad Wilcox is quoted.
by Carolyn Moynihan
Happiness studies &#8212; you can’t get away from them, and marital happiness studies seem to be the flavour of the month. The latest shows that a certain kind of happiness gap between spouses increases the likelihood of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Shackles&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/05/21/on-shackles/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/05/21/on-shackles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 01:30:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arlemagne1</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Divorce]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=2459</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Our critics are fond of accusing us of wanting to &#8220;shackle&#8221; women permanently to men.  It&#8217;s funny how not one of them has said the reverse.  That we want to permanently shackle men to women.  After all, if you shackle person A to person B, then you invariably shackle person B to person A.
If we&#8217;re [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Divorce Question</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/05/20/divorce-question/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/05/20/divorce-question/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 18:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ginny</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Daily Kos]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over at Dante Atkins’ Daily Kos post, some commenters have said that no-fault divorce is necessary; without it, women would be stuck in abusive marriages, unable to prove fault.  Everyone admits that there are some reasons why a woman (or man) might need to leave a marriage.  These include situations like:

spousal abuse
child abuse
substance abuse
addictive behaviors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gay Divorce in Texas</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/04/20/gay-divorce-in-texas/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/04/20/gay-divorce-in-texas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 18:46:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Roback Morse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I will be talking about this article this afternoon in my regular Issues Etc show. It will be running a bit earlier than usual: 1:45 Pacific Time, instead of my usual 2 PM slot. 
BTW, to all my new friends in Dallas: I mentioned to some of you that Same Sex Marriage could be coming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Impact of No-Fault Divorce</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/03/08/the-impact-of-no-fault-divorce/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/03/08/the-impact-of-no-fault-divorce/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:18:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Roback Morse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Divorce]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=1787</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is an article about Prof. Doug Allen&#8217;s talk at the BYU Symposium. Divorce is important to study, because no one fully anticipated how much changing divorce rules would change many other areas of society. I posted on this lecture, from the conference itself. see here. 
Allen said, it&#8217;s safe to say between 10 percent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Living together first puts marriage at risk</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/03/06/living-together-first-puts-marriage-at-risk/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/03/06/living-together-first-puts-marriage-at-risk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 23:34:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Co habitation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lots of good stats in here.
by Carolyn Moynihan
When will young adults get the message that living together does not increase their chances of a lasting marriage? New analysis of US national data shows that, on average, cohabitation actually decreases by 6 percentage points the likelihood of marriage lasting 10 years or more.
Despite earlier research showing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did I Get Married Too Young?</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/02/22/did-i-get-married-too-young/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/02/22/did-i-get-married-too-young/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:28:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Divorce]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=1574</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Interestingly, a study shows that those who marry between the ages of 20-24 have the lowest divorce rate. It was also suggested that &#8220;little or nothing is likely to be gained by deliberately delaying marriage beyond the mid twenties.&#8221;
David Lapp
Marriages of people in their early to mid-20s are not nearly as risky as you think.
When [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Effects of Pornography on Individuals, Marriage, Family, and Community</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/01/08/the-effects-of-pornography-on-individuals-marriage-family-and-community/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/01/08/the-effects-of-pornography-on-individuals-marriage-family-and-community/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 03:34:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a fantastically put together document on all of the far-reaching negative effects of pornography. I knew the stuff was bad, but, wow. (This article originally appeared at FamilyResearchCouncil.org.)
by Patrick F. Fagan, Ph.D. and Ruth Institute Academic Advisory Board Member
Pornography is a visual representation of sexuality which distorts an individual’s concept of the nature of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marriage and money in the Great Recession</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2009/12/14/marriage-and-money-in-the-great-recession/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2009/12/14/marriage-and-money-in-the-great-recession/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:12:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Many couples are rediscovering the longstanding sociological truth that marriage is one of society’s best insurance plans”. Amen. Take that, Britain. This article shows that the recession was not all bad.
Carolyn Moynihan
How are marriages &#8212; American marriages, at least &#8212; doing during the Great Recession? That is the question the latest State of Our Unions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘I was never your father’ &#8211; DNA testing and what it can do to children</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2009/12/02/%e2%80%98i-was-never-your-father%e2%80%99-dna-testing-and-what-it-can-do-to-children/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2009/12/02/%e2%80%98i-was-never-your-father%e2%80%99-dna-testing-and-what-it-can-do-to-children/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:09:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Artificial Reproductive Technology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Carolyn Moynihan, MercatorNet.com
We are used to the sad stories of children who have never known their fathers, and of those whose fathers become estranged through divorce; but there are a growing number of children who risk losing the only father they have ever known because he discovers he is not their father after all.
The New [...]]]></description>
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