20% of divorce linked to facebook
Posted by Todd Rhoades in Trends on Mar 10th, 2011 | 7 commentsA recent survey by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers found that Facebook is cited in one in five divorces in the United States. Also, more than 80 percent of divorce lawyers reported a rising number of people are using social media to engage in extramarital affairs.
“We’re coming across it more and more,†said licensed clinical psychologist Steven Kimmons, Ph.D., of Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, Ill. “One spouse connects online with someone they knew from high school. The person is emotionally available and they start communicating through Facebook. Within a short amount of time, the sharing of personal stories can lead to a deepened sense of intimacy, which in turn can point the couple in the direction of physical contact.â€
via Science Blog.
OK… most of you are involved neck-deep in ministry. Â Are you seeing this trend? Â 20% of divorces having a tie to Facebook? Â True or made up?
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I know someone who this happened to. And I know someone else who, thank the Lord, saw this becoming dangerous to their marriage & deleted their account.
I think anytime you allow yourself to be emotionally connected to someone of the opposite gender, you are at risk.
Facebook is not the problem, but it is a tool that can be good & bad.
Facebook is not the issue. I would like to see how many affairs involve a cell phone? Work place affairs that involve a water cooler? The problem does not lie with Facebook the problem lies with broken marriages and sick hearts looking for the feeling of love.
Some do need to avoid facebook just like they need to avoid the water cooler or their cell phone. People sin and they will use what ever resources they have to help them in their sin.
Facebook is revolutionary in its ability to connect people to their past.
If you have been intimate with somebody in the past you have defeated about 85% of the barriers to being intimate again. Plus there is the dangerous adventure factor that makes it even more tempting.
I can certainly see how it happens, but facebook can really only exasperate an existing problem. If your eyes where fixed on the person whom they belong to, you would not be likely to stray.
Evil is not an affirmative force. Darkness cannot penetrate light. Temptation is something that we retreat into, it is not something that overtakes us.
I think the statistic was made up. Over 500 million users of FB, if the stat was real I believe it would just be incidental to the divorce rate, not causal.
Of course, I also thought the AAML was made up until I googled it, so…
I’ve seen it once in the time I’ve been involved in social media. It was a really bad deal; church member/staff member thing. REALLY ugly.
However, 20%? Not sure I’d go that far; however I can tell you that FB could definitely be a means to an end if someone really wanted to stray.
I haven’t seen it, but I can believe that FB makes it a LOT easier for this kind of thing.
My wife has my FB password, etc… she can check my computer any time.
I have a great thing here… not going to mess it up. Not everybody thinks that way all the time…
Some of the comments are right, social network make it easy to track past lovers or meet new ones. I think that if the partners are focus on what God wants for their marriage, regardless of the temptations, the marriage will stay strong. We are weak being humans,so we really need God’s guidance and direction in our lives.