The pressures of the high cost of living, financial and emotional stinginess.
Reasons for marital disputes revealed by complaints to "Dubai Community Development"
Complaints related to family problems received by the Community Development Authority in Dubai from citizens and residents in recent years revealed that there are 7 main reasons that lead to disputes between spouses and are shared by different nationalities and cultures that resort to the authority to seek support and assistance in resolving these problems, including high cost pressures. Living and stingy, material and emotional, for one of the partners.
The Director of the Family Cohesion Department at the Community Development Authority in Dubai, Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Hammadi, told "Emirates Today" that the most important problems behind the disputes and the escalation of marital disputes revealed by the cases that the Authority has dealt with in recent years lie in 7 reasons that include increasing pressures. Resulting from the high cost of living, lack of understanding and harmony, poor dialogue, direct and indirect marital infidelity, failure to assume responsibilities, each according to his role, material miserliness, and seventh, miserliness in feelings and passion.
Al-Hammadi stated that the most important contemporary reasons for the occurrence of marital disputes are due to the high cost of living, the high volume of material costs, the inability of one of the spouses to harmonize and adapt to the circumstances of financial pressures, and the inability to spend comfortably.
He continued that what makes living pressures one of the current causes of marital disputes is mainly due to the poor financial planning of the spouses and their inability to manage their financial affairs in the correct way, adding that there is an unjustified spectacle in the financial expenditure as a result of the exposure to the false life promoted by social media.
Al-Hammadi stressed that the period of the spread of the Corona pandemic highlighted, more than ever, the importance of stability and family cohesion in overcoming crises, whether on the psychological, social or financial level, and stressed the importance of integrating roles within the family and the need for each individual to assume his responsibilities and the great and important impact that has on the family. stability and happiness of society.
He stressed that stability and family cohesion are one of the priorities of the Community Development Authority, including the economic, knowledge and legal aspects, which is translated into the concerted efforts of all parties in implementing parallel work programs that increase the awareness of family members with the aim of ensuring their effective contribution to improving their conditions, while providing them with the necessary support. Therefore, within the appropriate legislative and legal frameworks.
He pointed out that the commission provides family counseling through a number of channels, including personal interviews, telephone calls and electronic channels, through a specialized team of social and psychological experts in the commission that follows up on received cases and provides support and advice to spouses and family members with the aim of protecting them and ensuring their cohesion and stability as the first building block in building a society. Coherent and successful.
Al-Hammadi warned that many families and individuals encounter problems or make wrong decisions because of wrong advice and opinions provided by non-specialists and outside the field of social work, causing them more complications in their lives to the extent that divorce occurs between a percentage of couples because of these non-scientific consultations that are not based on the opinions of specialists who work. In the field of counseling and family guidance.
Al-Hammadi pointed out that there are reports received by the authority related to family disputes that either arose from disputes in files under consideration in the courts and in divorce files, or resulted from divorce cases that took place, adding that some of these communications are sometimes malicious reports to harm one party over the other in existing disputes over embracing child.
He added that it is unfortunate that the relationship of the spouses turns into grudges in which the children pay the price for their psychological and behavioral health, at a time when all friendly and civilized channels and ways are available, either to solve marital problems or to complete the separation between the spouses by mutual consent and agreement not to harm the children.
Al-Hammadi added that the family counseling department in the authority provides consultations to solve family problems and strengthen family bonding, and also establishes the necessary partnerships for community services that support the family, as well as organizing training courses on family formation and healthy practices for family bonding, in addition to public awareness to strengthen family bonds through means Public information and activities and participation in the development of research, studies and policies related to activating and supporting the family in society, in addition to organizing family and family events that enhance the role of individuals in small or extended families.
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