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What's the biggest factor for divorce in India? -Roshan Kishore

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published Published on Nov 1, 2016   modified Modified on Nov 1, 2016
-Livemint.com

Childlessness is the biggest factor for divorce in India while religious stereotyping for social practices such as polygamy can be misleading, studies and Census data show

After the Central government has made clear its opposition to triple talaq among Muslims in an ongoing case in the Supreme Court, the debate around a uniform civil code (UCC) has once again gathered momentum in the country.

Broadly speaking, there are three camps on the whole issue: those who support practices like triple talaq and nikah halala (which forces a Muslim women to consummate marriage with another man before remarrying her divorced husband), like the All-India Muslim Personal Law Board; those who oppose such practices as being un-Islamic but are against imposition of a UCC; and those who want a UCC in place of different personal laws.

Given that the legal and political debate around the UCC is likely to continue for some time, Mint has looked at some statistics and research on divorce in India.

First, census data shows that polygamy among men is not a phenomenon which is restricted to Muslims alone, an impression which is often drawn because of practices like triple talaq under the Muslim Personal Law.

Census data gives the number of currently married male and female population by religious groups. The data shows that the number of currently married women is greater than currently married men among all religious groups. In a world where one man marries one woman, the discrepancy is difficult to explain.

To be sure, it could have been argued that intra-religious mismatch among number of married men and women is a result of inter-religious marriages. However, the overall difference in the number of married women and men, more than 6.5 million, shows that polygamy exists among men in the country. A similar exercise with state-wise data is likely to give misleading results because sex-skewed migration can produce distorted outcomes.

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Livemint.com, 1 November, 2016, http://www.livemint.com/Politics/msOkEH0hgmxfbwHluzd7MM/Whats-the-biggest-factor-for-divorce-in-India.html


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