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A Study on Increasing the Divorce Rate in Kerala
Divorce is the dissolution of a social tie, but it is also possible that attitudes about divorce flow across social ties. The Researcher 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. We...
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| Format: | Printed Book |
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IOSR Journal Of Humanities And Social Science (IOSR-JHSS)
2014
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| Online Access: | http://10.26.1.76/ks/005689.pdf |
| Summary: | Divorce is the dissolution of a social tie, but it is also possible that attitudes about divorce flow
across social ties. The Researcher 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. We also find that popular
people are less likely to get divorced, divorcees have denser social networks, and they are much more likely to
remarry other divorcees. Interestingly, we do not find that the presence of children influences the likelihood of
divorce, but we do find that each child reduces the susceptibility to being influenced by peers who get divorced.
Overall, the results suggest that attending to the health of one’s friends’ marriages serves to support and
enhance the durability of one’s own relationship, and that, from a policy perspective, divorce should be
understood as a collective phenomenon that extends far beyond those directly affected. |
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| Physical Description: | PP 58-60 Volume 19, Issue 6, Ver. I (Jun. 2014), |