{"id":17331,"date":"2010-12-16T07:27:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-16T05:27:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-12-16T07:27:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-16T05:27:00","slug":"facebook-affairs-and-divorces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/17331-facebook-affairs-and-divorces.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook affairs and divorces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"BodyP\">The figure was confirmed to the German Press Agency dpa  by leading US divorce lawyer Allan Mantel, president of the American  Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML) in New York State.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\">&#8220;Google, Facebook, MySpace and Twitter make it easier  for a partner to prove infidelity,&#8221; he says. &#8220;The divorce rate in itself  hasn&#8217;t changed significantly. People have always been unfaithful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\">One in two marriages in the United States end in divorce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\">A recent survey carried out by the AAML revealed that  of the affairs uncovered by online means, 66 per cent were proved by  means of Facebook, 15 per cent through MySpace, 5 per cent through  Twitter and the remaining 15 per cent by lesser known sites.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\">Even some celebrities have fallen foul of online  networking services, as evidenced by reports that Desperate Housewives  star Eva Longoria has filed for divorce from her husband, professional  basketball player Tony Parker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\">The pair separated after Longoria discovered Parker was having intimate Facebook contact with another woman, reports said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BodyP\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/forumdisplay.php\/92-Broadband-amp-IT-News-Articles\"><strong>Facebook Affairs<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook and other social networking sites aren&#039;t just potentially dangerous for children and young teenagers, they are also the official cause for the ending of one in five marriages in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17331"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}