Divorce: An International Multi-dimensional Challenge

• Main Authors: Saleh Jafarian Dehkordi, Masoud Amiri
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences 2018-04-01
• Series: International Journal of Epidemiologic Research
• Subjects: Marital status; Divorce; Family; Psychosocial; Social; Behavioral
• Online Access: http://ijer.skums.ac.ir/article_31352_2f6f7c31616fe9cc5cfb7b6a31d00869.pdf

Divorce is one the most important public health problems which may affect many people especially parents, children, and their close relatives. To emphasize the importance of divorce worldwide, the world figures of some countries have been compared. According to transition from a traditional society to an industrial society and modern family, potential problems of divorce would be the most important difficulties of the families. Divorce is the outcome of the most acute and serious communication problems of the family. There are too much reasons for it, including: absence of compatibility and understanding, absence of securing psychic needs, violence, sexual problems, rising housing costs, high unemployment, inflation, immorality, family interference, and so on. Families are recommended to create more moral and mental familiarity situations for girls and boys before marriage, so that they would be able to somehow hinder divorce incidence through knowing each other better.