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By Julie Garrison

Special to DadsDivorce.com

If you’ve read a divorce article in the past year there’s a good chance you’ve heard of the harm social networks can wreak in your divorce.

In fact, DadsDivorce.com founder Joseph Cordell just had an article appear on HuffingtonPost.com about how "Social Media Represents Minefield In Divorce Landscape."

But Facebook and other social networking sites are not the cause of divorce, even though they are widely used to gain evidence. In fact, if Facebook plays a part in the demise of a marriage, it was probably on the rocks long before the spouses logged on to the computer.

Technology doesn’t make people engage in infidelity. People can do that on their own. But technology does help those people inclined to commit infidelity.

It’s not fair to blame Facebook or Internet dating sites because they are just the vehicle – not the driver.

By Tara Lynne Groth

Special to DadsDivorce.com

Your mother's maiden name. The name of your first pet. The city where you were born.

These are ubiquitous security prompts used by email and financial institutions.

What if you're divorcing and the person you shared your life with — who knows the answers to these questions — uses this information to hack into your accounts, email, and maybe even steal your identity?

There are steps you can take when your divorce is imminent, if you're navigating divorce and after all the paperwork is finalized. Whether you were married for 10 months or 10 years, re-establishing yourself as a single parent means you will be dependent on your own credit rating.

Cyber Parenting: Online Communities Target Long-Distance Parents and Children

by Rick Ortiz, editor of DadsDivorce.com

Anyone born after the invention of television has heard the admonitions that come with staring too long and intently at a television or computer screen. But with the passing of the generation who remember life before video it seems as though a kind of evolution and unconditional embrace of the television or computer screen as a builder of community, friendships, buddy-hood, and even a certain kind of parenting is becoming firmly entrenched in our society.