A SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC STUDY OF DIVORCING FACTORS - A SOCIAL PROBLEM

Sociology

Marriage is an important social event from which a person starts his/her marital union. In twentieth century there is increased rate of divorce. The past one year has witnessed 43,000 divorces across the country. Objectives of the study was to know the socio demographic profile of the divorced couple. Find out the reasons associated with the divorced among married couple. It is recording based descriptive study. Previous 2 years data was collected from September 2012 to August 2014 from records maintained by Family court. Results: Maximum divorced couples were from urban area (80.8%) and Hindu religion (92.8%). Majority of wives and husbands were educated up to higher secondary (37.6%) and graduation (54.4%) respectively. 50.4% of the couple had divorce earlier in 1-4 yrs of marriage. 71.2% couple were having no children. 60.8% divorced female were married between 18-22 yrs of age. Most common reason for divorced of married couple was cruelty and desertion. Conclusion: Most of divorce cases were seen in initial 1-4yrs of marriage and most common reason was cruelty and desertion. Family life education is needed to prevent the divorce.

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