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Sociological Analysis Of Marriage And Divorce
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Some of the studies (Choudhary 1988, Pothan 1986, Metha 1975) on divorce
based on Indian society have found the causes of divorce leads by
exogamy marriage but in this study 8.40 percent of divorce cases have
found under endogamy marriage system. Basically, low age at marriage of
wife, marriage with wrong information or forced marriage. 7.40 percent
of educated women were married with illiterate men without any concerned
to her; they were actually unknown about it. In this study as a case,
Mr. S.A and miss P.R were married with wrong information. Basically that
was based on their family interests. She was matrix pass where as her
husband was just literate but relatively well in economic condition.
After two years of their marriage, marital relation between them was
continuously became loose and occurred divorce.
Similarly, unequal
educational and economic statuses of the spouses were major cause of the
divorce under arranged marriage, which has more or less endogamy
nature. Similarly, 33.0 percent of male were generally disagreed on the
process of their marriage. 7.40 percent married were exogamy, which
failed to gain family support. Those marital circumstances have created
the situation that supports to breakdown their marital relation. 33.0
percent of husbands and 60.0 percent of wives were at the age of 20 when
they get married. This situation of age factor indicates that the
divorcee had immaturity to their family life. Similarly, the high age
difference in husband and wife and unequal educational status creates
differ expectations from the marriage which strongly support to occur
divorce gradually.so this study focuses on the sociological analysis of
marriage and divorce, using Alimosho local government of Lagos State as a
case study.
1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
The rate of divorce
among couples in Nigeria and the world at large is really disturbing and
alarming. Current trends suggest that close to two thirds of new
marriage will end in divorce. For instance, nearly 32 percent of couples
who divorce will do so before their fifth anniversary and about 63
percent before their tenth (Martin and Bumpass 1989 and National Centre
for Health Statistics 1993). But, since the nineteenth century the
proportion of marriages ended by death of a spouse has declined, while
the proportion end by divorce has increased, more or less steadily.
Divorce
rates climbed in the 1960s and 1970s reached a peak in the early 1980s,
and have dropped slightly since then. Still the U.S. divorce rate
remains high when compared with the rate in earlier eras and in other
societies (Whites 1990). In the same vein, in recent years, Nigeria has
witnessed the high rate of divorce as a result of urbanization and
industrialization. The periods triggered to a monetary industrial
economy. Thus, the extended family that used to resolve conflicts or
misunderstandings arise between couples were no longer functioning
effectively like in the past. The extended family structure eventually
broke up in the process; and there was a shift towards the nuclear
family system characterized by less involvement of members in the
resolution of marital conflicts.
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