Abstract

  Background and Aim: One of the social problems of communities is the currently increasing rate of divorce and family disintegration host building. The aim of this research is to understand the condition and factors influencing divorce and identifying some practical solutions to reduce it in Gonabad.

  Materials and Methods: This is a descriptive-analytic research. 123 divorced couples who got divorced in 1387-88 in Gonabad city were selected and completed a researcher-made questionnaire including demographic information.

  Results: In this study, 81 divorced woman and 42 divorced men were surveyed, 50% of the divorces were in affiance time, 60.7% in the early years of marriage or being together as couple, 63.3% in urban areas and 36.7% in rural areas. 54.1% of the divorces were through women's request and 14.2% on the part of men, 31.7% with the couples' agreement. 76.9% of the couples had a diploma or degree below. The marriage age of 45.2% of the couples was under 20 years. 65.4% of the couples had a familiarity with their spouse during marriage.75.2% of them had not conducted enough investigation and surreys on their spouse and his/her family. To study different social, economical, cultural and personal factors, the most important related factors to divorce were: men's addiction, low familiarity of couples with each other, lack of life skills, low age of marriage, urbanization, misunderstanding, mental or physical diseases of the spouse, unemployment, family or other interference from the spouse's family or other people, mandatory marriage, shortage of relationship and sexual skills and hypocrisy . There was also a significant difference in the rate of divorce from location (p=0.0019), the history of familiarity with the spouse (p=0.0013), education (p=0.0000), research and evaluation conducted on a spouse (p=0.0012), physical and mental abuse (p=0.0000), and misunderstanding (p=0.0001) points of view .

  Conclusion: Because of the role of different factors in divorce, preventive strategies and reduction of divorce should be much considered before marriage.