Divorce Rates Across The World
Increasing Indian divorce rates prompt a debate between promoting individual independence and preserving marriage sanctity.
Marriages in India are considered sacred. For Indians getting separated or divorced is never an easy thing. Indian relationships there are a lot of other factors involved like societal pressure, families etc. If there are children, then it is more difficult to divorce. In India marriages are considered as a bond not between 2 individuals but a bond between 2 families. According to data from the Global Index, which analyzes worldwide statistics, India has recorded an impressively low divorce rate of just 1%.
Following closely behind India, Vietnam claims the second-lowest divorce rate at 7%. The world’s highest divorce rate i.e., 94 percent is observed in Portugal. After Portugal, Spain reports a divorce rate of 85 percent. Though in India the divorce rate is low, since the past few years, India is witnessing a huge rise in divorce rates, especially in the urban areas.
What are the reasons behind increasing divorces? Is this a bad thing or a good thing? Let us find out.
- One of the main reasons why divorce rates are increasing is because Indian women have grown a lot in the past few years financially, socially, and economically. Earlier they used to remain in a relationship even if it was an abusive one, such as a dependency. Today, women are educated and smart enough to take care of themselves.
- We know that the foundation of any relationship is trust, if trust is broken, it never gets back to normal or usual. People get emotionally or physically disinterested quite early and keep shifting from people to people for their temporary needs. People tend to cheat on their partners and have affairs.
- Intimacy is important to sustain a relationship / marriage for a longer period of time. Intimacy is not about sexual pleasure, it is also about emotional pleasure, which is just deep conversation, holding hands, and spending more quality time with each other. Nowadays most couples are struggling to find that connection with each other. Be it emotional or physical connection, every relationship must fulfill the needs of both the partners.
- We have heard many complaints of couples that during the initial phase of their relationship he/she gave more time. But, now they have stopped or that they have changed. Marriages also come to an end when there is a lack of attention and time, not listening to your spouse or not letting your spouse talk, or you not talking to your spouse.
- Today women and men don't live with old fashioned thoughts. However, society expects married couples to behave in a certain way, there are some limits, there are still many households where the women are still not allowed to give her opinion. This is changing slowly and will eventually end. However there is one more problem with the newer generation that is they are less tolerant and more aggressive. The newer generation doesn't believe a lot in compromising or adjusting with the families which leads to a problem.
What do you think is right? Should divorces be promoted so that all individuals are independent and leave unhealthy or toxic relationships? Or should divorces be discouraged to save the purity of marriage? Let us know in the comments below.
