Abstract

Post-divorce effects on family members in Egypt at the Integrative psychiatry clinic (IPC)

Author(s): Nancy Labib

Introduction: In Egypt, numbers of divorce cases increased over the past decade from 100,000 to 186,000. It means that from 980,000 marriages held every year,20 % get a divorce. These ratios are similar in the middle east too. Some members of Social solidarity committee attributed this rise to hard economic conditions & low employment rates (Ahram online, November 2018 Urbanization has played a great role in rising numbers of divorce in the past years (El Refaey S. 2010), as it has affected the expectations of marriage shifting from traditional marriage to different and new requests (Al-Kazi L.2008), New terms are allowed to be said lately despite the fear of the stigma of divorce; for example “ incompatibility, expectations from gender roles at home, higher educational levels for women". Incompatibility is now a good enough reason for asking for a divorce, also high educational levels of women associated with their increase of employment has lead to a major shift in their role in the society, it was expected to lead to more home stability yet, unfortunately, it’s not what we see according to studies and statistics. So, not only can women leave marriages for different and new reasons but also they have a divorce without having to go back to living with their parents (authorities)