Grounds and Processes of Divorce among Men and Women of Mashhad

Abstract

Family is formed based on a stable and continuous commitment between wife and husband. In case the family is not capable of fulfilling its members’ requirements properly, it will face instability. This instability sometimes results in divorce. Nowadays in Iran, families face with different instabilities and one of the consequences is assumed be divorce. The phenomenon has been increasing over the past decades. The study explored the divorce grounds and processes based based on actors’s experiences. The study was conducted using grounded theory and through interview with six women and four women. Doing deep interviews and multi-stage coding, it was tried to reach an abstract model. Finally, it come up with 180 open codes and 11 pivotal codes and at the end, a process model was obtained. In this paper, the concept of “inappropiate selection” is the main reason for the divorce. It should be mentioned that divorce reasons or divorce grounds can be categorized into macro and micro levels. At the macro level divorce can be due to multiculturalism and values confusion and at the micro level it can be due to inappropriate choices for marriage. The process comprises of inappropriate marriage, facing a problem and incapability in solving it, enhancing the problem and its effects on other aspects of their life.