Perpective of Divorced Women About the Factors Contributing to a Divorce, Case Study: The Divorced Women of Baneh

Since the broad cultural and social consequences of divorce for women of Baneh city، this study aimed to explore the perpective of divorced women about the factors contributing to a divorce in their city. Fifteen women who had experienced divorce and living in Baneh were participating in this phenomenological qualitative study. Semi-structured interview and reviewing documentation were used to collect date. Data analysis was conducted by qualitative content analysis. The results of this study include factors contributing to divorce from the point of view of the divorced women. The main themes consist of individual factors، interpersonal factors، family factors and socio-cultural factors and sub themes are inappropriate motives of mariage، psychological and personality problems of spouse، lack of effective communication skills، conflict between tradition and modernity in family، coexistence of local culture and modern culture and finally committing crimes. Given the nowadays increasing divorce rate، professional intervention of social workers before and during and marriage and also after divorce seems to be necessary. According to traditional context of Baneh، it’s recommanded to educate and inform families in order to reduce their ineffective interference in couples’s lives. Also policy-makers and social planners should improve and strenghten economic and social structure of frontier areas to reduce the rate of divorce and its consequences.