Why are divorce rates so high in certain countries?

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KatherineJ · Accepted Answer

Honestly, I think it’s because a lot of people think that marriage is “easy”. It is definitely NOT easy. It takes work! It takes the ability to compromise! Communication is important, but so is the ability to bite your tongue! Remember that there are two very different people in any marriage, and there is sometimes going to be friction. It happens, and it’s not a bad thing. But so many people forget that marriage is about so much more than a little church service and an expensive party. You have to actually learn how to live with that other person. If you haven’t thought about that, it’s probably a better idea to wait until you have.

Sunfresh · Accepted Answer

Probably because liberalism in.. morals out.

RiseofArtemis · Answer

Do you want the short answer or long answer? The short answer is toxic society and feminism who pushed a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.

Women account for around 80% of divorces. Ladies without our modern economy and society you would all be clinging to a man to protect you and take care of you. Your freedom is nothing but fabricated due to money and can disappear just as quickly if the economy has a total collapse. Money has only the value people give it and if we all lived on farms and looked after each other we wouldn't have such problems we face today. We can totally have the same technological advancements even without money or even faster.

The long answer is this. Divorces only happen in countries where women have 1 freedom to choose if they want to be with a man or not. 2 laws which make it easier to divorce such as "no fault" which most of the time is seen as "his fault" No mater what he did.

2 Where they can be economically independent and make their own money. in which case if he doesn't do what she wants she'll divorce him. Have read about it a lot.

If we wanted to solve the problem of high divorce and generally a toxic society we would have to ban money and only live by what we produce. Farmers are among the people with the closest family bonds and the happiest in terms of family while people in the city are less happy on what they have.

Economy and toxic society go hand in hand and generally divorces were not a thing in the past because the economy wasn't as important and lets face it. Divorces happen because people are taught not to care and just drop someone when the person doesn't fit 1000% into a box. Toxic people are among the reason why divorces happen in the first place and if we could find a way to weed out toxic people I fear that the population of any western country would be half of what it is now.

If we taught both genders to treat each other well and always be kind to each other and teach the respective needed things to have functioning relationships then we could drop the divorce rates significantly and we need to punish narcissists at all costs.

This explanation hopefully gives enough to know why divorces happen in the first place. And I'm not against women being able to work and have their own money.

Rania05 · Answer

Beforehand I'll state, I'm a Moroccan Muslim, 17 even if my profile shows otherwise (fooling around while making my email with my sis)
I don't know how it goes in other Arabian countries or Americaned Muslims but here in Morocco divorcing is only 'not very liked' by Allah as concept, if you do give your best to see a silver of your marriage working out soon after using all possible methods (like trying all methods like asking for your spouse's relatives abd friends help, communication and financial or emotional aid to the spouse) then you're eligible to divorce, my mom's friends' daughters divorced for various reasons like domestic violence, gambling, disrespect in the house, indecisiveness, cheating or the desire for a second wife when they don't agree or sexual interest from their husbands they're against. No one laughed or looked down upon them, some were applauded for if not pitied for having gotten through a failed marriage with someone who wasn't worth the time of their day.
Men divorce their wives for cheating, language violence, fearing bringing them harm for something, unharmony of them with their relatives.
No one is not getting rights, there's no one persuading against divorce if one can stand upon their own foots.
I don't know why so many say it's Islam not giving women rights, it's the selfish human nature finding convenience in twisting it to their liking to lead women by the nose.
Allah quite literally gave women choices in everything by sending the pros and cons.
No one is in position to force Hijab, marriage or full support to family.

DermalPunch · Answer

Alcohol usage.

Luxembourg is one of the European countries where residents most frequently engage in "heavy drinking episodes". One in three Luxembourg residents gets drunk "at least once a month", says the latest Eurostat study, which puts Luxembourg in the top three countries where "heavy episodic drinking" is most frequent.

One in three residents gets drunk "at least once a month"

Emiliamazing · Answer

There are some good points being made here that compare divorce rates with violence. Some thing else that hasn’t been mentioned is more women are in the workforce and may not feel so tied to the financial stability that husbands provided in the past. And obviously this is vice versa. A man may not feel so bad about wanting to let go if he knows his wife will be fine without his earnings.

My husband and I could both stay afloat just fine without each other, but we choose to work through our issues because we’re proud proud of our ability to do so and want to look back at our wonderful and challenging journey when we’re old, with pride.

BullShark · Answer

One given way why divorce rates are so high is because people aren't happy in their relationships. Marriages are forced, couples aren't happy, and there just isn't love between the spouses anymore.

But that's not the only reason. Your culture and family values also have a lot to do with this as well. I won't go any further into this because otherwise, I might end up offending some people, but in short, those people are taught to keep their mouths shut or just don't have anywhere else to go if they did divorce.

DoctorSex · Answer

Atheism and Divorce rates:

Countries with the Top 5 highest divorce rates vs (Rate of Atheism):

1) America (20-29%)

2) Luxemburg (24%)

3) Germany (27%)

4) Belgium (20%)

5) France (30%)

Countries with the Top 5 lowest divorce rate vs (Rate of Atheism):

1) India (<1%)

2) Kenya (1.6%)

3) Mexico (3%)

4) Columbia (11%)

5) Chile (17%)

In the book "The Fundamentals of Prosperity", the author argues that Europe's age of enlightenment was instigated by the Church, European dark ages was instigated by the rise in atheism.

Kind regards,

DoctorSex

hIopinionated_ · Answer

Being single means freedom and for centuries women were property. Marriage benefits men in every which way and still does. Women and teen girls were married off by forced and other women chose to marry for survival (since women had no rights and were forced to not work)

With that being said I truly believe the reason is because women have rights now compared to before. It may have taken a while to exercise them by large numbers, you know with constant conditioning and violent manipulations from men but many women aren’t scared anymore, in THAT aspect. Sadly many many women still have long ways to go considering they stay in abusive marriages and end up dead and or broken

Breanna_nonbinary · Answer

The divorce rate is lower in countries where either social pressures or religious pressures are higher. In countries where people can feel more open to make up their own minds they can be free to get out of a marriage that isn’t as fulfilling.
The things you posted are just raw data without context. For example it’s commonly believed that 50% of American marriages end in divorce. What people don’t realize is that there are only two ways for a marriage to end, divorce and death.
Besides the real question should be what is the average age or age range of people getting divorced? What makes a marriage successful? Are second marriages more successful? Etc

Jacobbbb · Answer

A place like Luxembourg is extremely wealthy. It's everyday you're seeing cars that are worth 200k or more. That being said with that amount of wealth that people have over there, I feel like everyone would just be after each other's money. It's an issue of morals I think.

And in richer countries with privileges such as technology, a means to easily be unfaithful or cheat, people are gonna do exactly that if they get bored with their spouse or whatever the reason may be. In general I don't think we view marriage the same as we did 3 decades ago

EarthRealm · Answer

As MEN we don’t Fuck around
If some Bitch Wants to Act like she possesses Authority That she doesn’t. Then I’ll Fuck her Then tell her to get the fuck out.
Or I’ll Fuck her in my SUV Somewhere Far away from where she Lives then I’ll Tell her to get out and I think she won’t I’ll drive to a gas station or a restaurant Get a Table sit down for a few minutes tell her I’m gonna go to the bathroom then I’ll leave her ass there with the Bill and everything to pay 💰
She will be Deserted and will have to find her own way back home.
While she’s trying to figure shit out I’ll have some locks already in my crib I’ll head back to my crib and change the locks if She has a Key 🔑 which more than likely she doesn’t have a key unless she Took my key and made a copy and I could just change the lock To prevent a Unnecessary Inconvenience To prevent a possible Reality from taking place.

Anonymous · Answer

Social Politics, Man-hating dogma, Financial Opportunism, Unfaithfulness, Lust-based-relationships, Vanity, Gold-digging, domestic violence, alcoholism, drug use, antisocial behaviour - take your pick.

Most of these are two-way, some are more on men, some are more on women; though women are most often both the initiators of divorce and the ones set to financially benefit the most from it...

... Which is an interesting coincidence, especially when gold-digging is a very real thing in today's society.

kao118 · Answer

As an Indian Hindu if we get married you know we’re keepers 😉

Wow. Getting married in Luxembourg is like setting yourself up to fail. That’s really sad.

But if anyone has any questions about India and our traditions, thus why we have a low divorce rate, feel free to ask!

alice55 · Answer

Because people divorce for the tiniest reasons, they're even encouraged to do so, instead of trying to make it work they rather divorce (and the cheating is also high in those countries).

Though you cannot really compare those countries to India or Muslim countries since those are extremist countries, in India and Muslim countries they rather murder their wife than divorce (though in France too, there's hundred of divorce that finish with the woman getting murdered).

DaveJord · Answer

Honestly because people have are figuring out the that they can do just as well if not better for themselves with out a dead beat wife or husband. Being single means having finical freedom. Divorce laws have killed the idea of marriage as a life long binding contract between two individuals.

I guess you can blame women liberations, but honestly I think men are better off this way as well.

Dinklex3 · Answer

I think the stigma of divorce is decreasing.

People are less tolerant of cheating and dumb BS so they get divorced.

As a kid I've seen my friends moms stay with abusive husbands. A lot of it was due to them not having money to support themselves.

I have quite a few divorced friends (all military). Majority of the reasons they divorced was due to continuous cheating.

I can't/ won't speak on other countries.

LazerBean · Answer

Because divorce isn't considered taboo in those countries with higher divorce rates. If you look at partner violence by country statistics, the countries with the lowest divorce rate consistently have higher partner violence rates than almost all of the ones with higher divorce rates.

ChrisMaster69 · Answer

That’s because divorce is not a stigma in a lot of countries, also by certain religions, no one really cares. look at the violence against women in some of those with the lowest rates of divorce.

Cubus · Answer

All of the countries in top 10 (except for USA) had communism/socialism which is anti-family. And in USA it was caused by sexual revolution. You can check it by looking at how the number of Black kids raised without a father rose from 60s till today.

Kichbazp_ · Answer

@babygirl_s Apart from Factors Like Culture, Society Pressure, Poverty & Unemployment, Security... A Ugly Man agrees to pass Rest of his life with a Ugly Woman then it becomes Arrange Marriage and they *Both* Consider it their *Destiny*

Other side Far from there, Some People Never settle down like a wave of Ocean and they end up having Many Marriages & Divorce !

Why are divorce rates so high in certain countries?

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Blueeyes81 · Answer

Really depends on womens rights. If a woman has minimal education, minimal job prospects, stricter divorce laws, then she will be much more dependant on a man for survival. In a more open western society a woman does not need a man to survive thus the option of divorce is a real possibility.

Subarugirl · Answer

Because people have the legal and financial freedom to be able to make the choice to leave if they are in an unhappy in their relationships.

Ironic_Method · Answer

People will divorce more where it's more acceptable to do so. India has a very low divorce rate because divorce is shameful to the person and the entire family so it doesn't happen regardless of how miserable they are.

anon1903 · Answer

Women have rights and voice there. They aren't forced into marriages where divorce rates are high, they prefer to stay out of love.

Literalbillionaire17 · Answer

I think it depends on status and where you live. Some countries the rate is so low bc divorce is very very frowned upon. Some countries like here in America it’s a lot more acceptable.

call_me_scar · Answer

Well in places like Iran I would imagine it's so low there because of the lack of rights for women to get divorced plus a social stigma is probably at play

Avicenna · Answer

There is little to no stigma in those countries

AsaKyo · Answer

Doesn't surprise me that most of the English speaking countries have the highest divorce rates

Staximus · Answer

I'm pretty sure the US divorce rates are much higher in the big cities and much lower in the rural areas

captain_voidwalker · Answer

Its called alimony and child support. Why work hard to make a marriage work when you can just fuck the poor guy out of his money.

Anonymous · Answer

I'm surprised the UK is high. Most people here don't bother getting married anymore 😂

Anonymous · Answer

I guarantee these places are ones which have no fault divorce. Also 90% of all divorces are initiated by the female..

maximumpower · Answer

More permissive societies, most of in which women can support themselves.

LimitedBenefits101 · Answer

Luxembourg? first time hearing about that country  Very surprising to see us in 5th

Anonymous · Answer

Many couples today do not want to concede. Each person thinks they're right.

StevieNix · Answer

Sex Money

Anonymous · Answer

It’s so sad to see I’d rather not marry…

Iron_Man · Answer

It’s high in America

Anonymous · Answer

Liberalism need I say more

Grond21 · Answer

Culture primarily

monkeynutts · Answer

Dry ass pussy.

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