{"id":2591,"date":"2011-11-29T16:48:17","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T21:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/citings\/?p=2591"},"modified":"2011-12-14T21:17:52","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T02:17:52","slug":"the-sociology-of-splitsville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2011\/11\/29\/the-sociology-of-splitsville\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sociology of Splitsville"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 189px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a class=\"img-link\" title=\"Creative Commons licensed photo by JoeInSouthernCA on flickr.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/11438926@N00\/6303476365\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px initial initial;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6230\/6303476365_bcf8f5d7ab_m.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Cover Story:  New York Post, 11.01.11\" width=\"189\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Joe Wolf via flickr.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The most recent marital meltdown making headlines  involves the rapid &#8220;I don&#8217;t&#8221; of entrepreneur Kim Kardashian and pro basketball player Kris Humphries.  While their split&#8217;s every detail is dissected everywhere from tabloids to 24  hour news networks, the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmoinesregister.com\/article\/20111108\/LIFE\/311080055\/1001\/NEWS\/?odyssey=nav|head\">Des Moines Resister<\/a><\/em> took a different  angle on the issue: they talked to some sociologists.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Susan  Stewart, associate professor of sociology at Iowa State University, and  Tony Paik, associate professor the University of Iowa\u2019s Department of  Sociology, helped explain some of the broader societal issues affecting  early divorce and how we perceive flame-out marriages. Stewart  maintains that although people generally don\u2019t talk about their own  divorces, it\u2019s fair game to critique others\u2019. This appears to especially  be true for the nearly 1 in 4 \u00a0U.S. marriages that end within the  first 5 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are fascinated when people crash and burn,\u201d Stewart said. \u201cIt\u2019s a way to work through [our own issues]: \u2018They are way worse off than I am.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stewart believes age is often a determining factor in early divorce, but  short engagement periods and contrasting religious or family backgrounds also come into play. And Paik presents data showing that earlier intercourse, surprisingly, may also be a determinant of short-lived marriages: according to Paik&#8217;s analysis, of those  who remain abstinent until age 18, only 15 percent will divorce within  the first 5 years of marriage. Those who have sex before 18 are shown to divorce at at rate of 31  percent.<\/p>\n<p>Paik  hasn\u2019t determined why this might be, but he speculates that sex at a young age may lead to other  possible divorce determinants, including premarital pregnancy, permissiveness  toward non-marital sex, and premarital cohabitation&#8211;each of which seems to lose relevance over time, particularly when it comes to the Kardashian-Humphries union, which, so far as the prurient public knows, included none of these factors.<\/p>\n<p><small><\/small><\/p>\n<div>\n<div id=\":z4\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/u\/0\/images\/cleardot.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most recent marital meltdown making headlines involves the rapid &#8220;I don&#8217;t&#8221; of entrepreneur Kim Kardashian and pro basketball player Kris Humphries. While their split&#8217;s every detail is dissected everywhere from tabloids to 24 hour news networks, the Des Moines Resister took a different angle on the issue: they talked to some sociologists. Susan Stewart, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":386,"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":[41,1611,320,129],"class_list":["post-2591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sightings","tag-celebrity","tag-divorce","tag-marriage","tag-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591","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\/386"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2591"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2624,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591\/revisions\/2624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}