CAUSES OF DIVORCE AMONG WOMEN OF GILGIT CITY

Abstract

The studies explore causes of divorce among the women of Gilgit city. The study focuses particularly on young educated divorced women as a scope of study. By applying qualitative case study method, the present study critically explored the perspectives of women on divorce in the light of their own experience, their personal understanding on marital dissolution. Similarly tendency follows in the reasoning of their marital dissolution, which leads them to seek divorce. The reasons of divorce are multidimensional for the women. The study explore many traditional reasons of divorce such as family interferences, alcohol and drug addiction and physical violence and many modern reasons of divorce such as unrealistic expiations, incompatibility between spouses, lack of trust and freedom, husbands involvement in extra marital affairs and emotional torture. While socioeconomic factors like education and employment opportunity, women education and women empowerment. The study find that by leaving abusive marriages, women gain several individual positive changes, such as escape from physical and emotional torture, have an opportunity to live a happy life again. But post-divorce consequences are severe for women in relation to social reaction of their divorce. The study finds that women are faced by social exclusion and stigma, harassment in working place, difficulties in second marriage, and downswing changes in lifestyle in the face of social outlooks and psychological trouble in post-divorce situations