Iraq..An alarming rise in divorce rates..10 cases every hour

Iraqi judicial authorities published a statistic on the number of divorce cases in the country last January, and it reached about 7,000 divorce cases, approximately 10 cases every hour.

According to a number of local newspapers, Baghdad governorate came first in terms of divorce cases, and according to the statistics, 6486 divorce cases occurred in various Iraqi governorates, except for the Kurdistan region, where Baghdad governorate topped the divorce cases with 2390 cases.

Although it is not the first time that Iraqi courts have recorded such a large number of divorce cases between spouses, the continuation of this escalating pace over many months constitutes a danger threatening social stability, and exposes the future of thousands of Iraqi families to loss and dispersal, according to social experts and human rights activists.

The Iraqi human rights activist, Nour Nafeh, told Sky News Arabia: The reasons behind this are completely clear, according to Nour, who adds: “The most prominent of which is the psychological state experienced by most of the Iraqi people due to unemployment, poverty and other economic and livelihood crises, which affect building a future. Safe for any couple as there may be personal personal factors that encourage divorce, and this is due to the couple’s lack of culture and awareness, which leads to resorting to solving divorce at the simplest problem,

and we do not forget the negative role here of the practices and incidents of domestic violence and underage marriage in raising the frequency of the phenomenon of divorce, as the activist says Iraqi".

 As for the member of the Iraqi Women’s Rights Organization, Sarah Al-Hasani, she says in: “The rise in divorce cases is not new in recent years in Iraq, where many societal and behavioral factors and transformations have occurred, including those related to the issue of conviction and family bonding and the lack of previous marriages between minors, unlike the present".

And she adds: "The emergence of technology and modern means of communication, and the basic concepts of the marital relationship until they differ, as well as the ease of committing marital infidelity from both parties to some due to the spread of communication sites and their misuse and employment by them."

The living situation has also become a central part of these reasons, as Al-Hasani explains. Violence is a major part of the catalysts for the escalation of the phenomenon of divorce, due to the high level of Iraqi women’s awareness of self-respect and their rejection of the culture of beating and violence by husbands, and this is of course a positive development regardless of the issue of divorce. .

One of the most important ways to solve this social scourge is besieging and combating domestic violence cases as one of the main causes of divorce, according to Al-Hasani, adding: “which is through the abolition of Article 41 of the Iraqi Penal Code, which permits what it calls the discipline of the wife, and the enactment of laws such as child protection and opposition Domestic violence, which will contribute to reducing the escalation of violence and divorce cases.

The Iraqi human rights activist continues, listing the reasons for the high divorce rates in Iraq, by saying: “Allowing minors to marry with the consent of the guardian and marriage outside the courts are also among the reasons for the exacerbation of divorce cases. Minors are neither aware nor aware of the responsibilities and burdens of marital life, and they are even emotionally and sexually and physically unfit for marriage."

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