International Journal of Political Science and Development

Vol. 9(3), pp. 126-134, May, 2021. 

DOI: 10.14662/IJPSD2021.045

ISSN: 2360-784X

 

Full Length Research

 

Divorce And Its Impact On Socio-Economic Life Of Women: The Case Of Ofa Woreda, Wolaita Zone, Southern Ethiopia

 

Worknesh Woldemichael

 

MA in Social Anthropology , Social Science Common Course Co-ordinator at Kebri Dehar University, Somali Regional State, Eastern Ethiopia.

 

Email: workneshku@gmail.com

 

Accepted 24 May 2021

ABSTRACT

 

This paper was conducted under the title of divorce and its impact on the socio economic life of women. It is particularly focuses on identifying and clarifying the main problem associated with divorce including its impacts on the psychology and educational performance of the children whose families gate divorced. In order to study divorce related problems, the researcher employed random sampling technique and used both secondary and primary data. The collected data is analyzed by using descriptive statistical analysis to describe the responses of informants. 5 male and 15 female totally 20 respondents were purposively selected as sample for this study. This study was delimited to divorce and its impact on the socio- economic life of women in the case of Ofa Wreda, Busha Kebele.The reason why the researcher selected this Kebelle is the problem of divorce is so sever in the area than other kebeles, as the researcher got the information from woreda women, youth and children office head. Furthermore, it is described the economic status of both divorced families and non-divorced ones studied its impacts on the children’s of divorced women’s family and women’s. The findings of the research are women what causes make the spouse to divorce , how could the settle the property, the problem the divorced persons get after divorce, the problem of bearing children after divorce and societies and family feeling on divorce situation. Therefore, to prevent the psychological and socio-economic problems of the divorced family, the society and concerned bodies should be responsible to support them in any directions. In addition to that, the government should pay special attention in the divorce law for the purpose of reducing divorces in the society by using the system of giving awareness about the risk of divorce in the societies.  

 

Key Words: Marriages, Feminization, Culture of divorce, Adjusting to divorce, Economic divorces, Psychological divorce, Community divorce, Legal divorce...etc

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Cite this article as: Worknesh, W. (2021). The Status and Role of Cooperatives and Cooperative Bank of Oromia on the Socio-Economic Development in Ethiopia. Int. J. Polit. Sci. Develop. 9(3) 126-134