Social Pathology of Divorce in Urban society if Iran

The aim of this study is social pathology of divorce, evaluating and identifying the most important individual, familial, economical, social and cultural factors as well as providing the most influential factors among the most important identified factors involved in formation of this phenomenon in the urban society of Iran.The secondary analysis has been used in this study. The statistical population has been Persian articles related to divorce in the urban society of Iran, sampling was non- random and purposeful, and the sample size has been 27 articles. The results obtained indicate that the poor life skills, deception, distrust, sexual dissatisfaction and infidelity, violence, addiction, infertility, remarriage and mental illnesses, has been the most important individual factors; family intervention, forced and inappropriate marriage has been the most important familial reasons. The most important economical factors has been economical problems, unemployment, financial independence of women, the dowry and updating of that, non-payment of alimony; negative impact of media has been the social problems; and the most important cultural factors involved in formation of divorce in urban society of Iran has been aimlessness and increase the level of expectations, fading moral and religious values, inappropriate relationship before marriage, mismatch and misunderstanding between couples, positive impression of consequences of divorce. Finally the recommendations have been offered to improve the situation.