{"id":1101,"date":"2009-10-20T14:12:18","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T20:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/crawler\/?p=1101"},"modified":"2009-10-22T14:21:44","modified_gmt":"2009-10-22T20:21:44","slug":"11-year-itch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2009\/10\/20\/11-year-itch\/","title":{"rendered":"11 year itch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Creative Commons licensed photo by gcardinal on flickr.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/30883129@N08\/3984741841\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 0px initial initial\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2470\/3984741841_73fed460da_m.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Rings\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/uknews\/6366176\/More-divorcing-couples-separating-after-getting-11-year-itch-figures-suggest.html\">Telegraph (UK) <\/a>ran a story about divorce trends in the UK, which don&#8217;t seem to follow the convention of the seven-year-itch.<\/p>\n<p>The paper reports on new patterns in the UK:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While the old saying refers to couples separating after getting the \u201cseven year itch\u201d, the Office of National Statistics figures appear to suggest that in Britain that is slightly longer.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 144,220 couples who divorced in 2007, the average length of a marriage in Britain was 11.7 years, the figures showed.<\/p>\n<p>The divorce rate is at its lowest level since 1981, with experts putting it down to the fact that fewer people are getting married.<\/p>\n<p>The figures came as a study claimed marriage should be viewed as an \u201ceconomic partnership\u201d, where relationships failed during times of emotional and economic decline.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One scholar notes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Malcolm Brynin, co-author of Changing Relationships, a new Economic and Social Research Council book based on five years of research into family life, said the costs and benefits of a relationship were \u201cmore fluid than in the past\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople come together and stay together only when this is to their individual advantage,\u201d he told The Sunday Times.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But the sociologist adds&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>However, sociologist Frank Furedi, professor of sociology at Kent University and author of Paranoid Parenting, said: \u201cWhen you get married, if you make this kind of statistical calculation saying, \u2018Well, I\u2019m getting married, the chances are we\u2019ll only get to 11 years\u2019, the whole ritual becomes entirely pointless.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you adopt the idea, we might as well give up on the concept of durable relationships altogether.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/uknews\/6366176\/More-divorcing-couples-separating-after-getting-11-year-itch-figures-suggest.html\">Read more. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s Telegraph (UK) ran a story about divorce trends in the UK, which don&#8217;t seem to follow the convention of the seven-year-itch. The paper reports on new patterns in the UK: While the old saying refers to couples separating after getting the \u201cseven year itch\u201d, the Office of National Statistics figures appear to suggest that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39074],"tags":[70,122,320],"class_list":["post-1101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sightings","tag-family","tag-lifecourse","tag-marriage"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1101"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1105,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1101\/revisions\/1105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}