DIVORCE IS CATCHING AMONG FRIENDS

A combined study out of Brown University, Harvard University, and the University of California, San Diego, has found that divorce can be catching. The study, titled “Breaking Up is Hard to Do, Unless Everyone Else is Doing it Too,” finds:
– Divorce happens in clusters, and can spread between friends. Clusters of divorces extend to two degrees of separation in a network of people.
– A person is 75 percent more likely to become divorced if a friend has divorced.
– If a friend of a friend is divorced, a person’s odds of getting a divorce increases 33 percent.
(Study posted here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1490708)
* Ah, the old “if your friend jumped off a bridge, would you do it, too?”
* A guy gets divorced, then his friend gets divorced? Yeah, ’cause it was his friend who was cheating with his wife, dummies!
* Who wants to stay married with all that fresh meat out there?
* I think they spent more time coming up with the clever title than they did on the study.
* Sounds like everybody eventually gets divorced … and a lot of those people happen to have friends.