Determinant Analysis of Divorce in Wolaita Sodo Town: In Case of Wadu Kebele, Snnpr, Ethiopia

Abstract

Marriage is the very beautiful gift which Allah given to his human being. It gives pleasure, security, peace, and family. In life there is happiness and worries which men or women have to face and try to solve problems. Relation of husband and wife makes life beautiful and loveable, but unfortunately most of the couples these days fail to understand its beauty and charm. They mostly quarrel with each other and create misunderstandings, and end of this can be in the separation or divorce. Divorce is an emotional journey, due to this reason they have different impacts, among thus the children remains without family, street children number is increase, affected by a disease emotional disobedience occurred in children and other. All over the world the divorce rate among the couples is increasing an alarming rate. Rising of divorce rate has affected the economic structure of the country, as well as the world. The main objective of this study is to identify the effect of determinant of divorce. The source of the data is primary that can be obtained through structured questioner from the selected respondents. The samples required to the study were selected using simple random sampling. The study is analyzed using descriptive study such as frequency, percentage and inferential statistics like logistic Regression. As a result, there are 14.3% of the people are separated and 85.7% of the people are not separated. From this: age, religious, education, income, family size, family influence, the decision to marry, job, are significantly increasing the divorce rate. Finally the study concluded as the present study depict that increasing age ,religious, education, income, family size, family influence, job, the decision to marry have a positive effect on divorce. This indicates that the job have less amount of money , high amount of family size and the decision to marry at the time of marriage  leads to divorce. The government and any stack holder should be give advice about the factors of divorce for all people to their family.

DOI: 10.7176/JHMN/106-01

Publication date:March 31^st 2023