Sociology and Anthropology Vol. 1(1), pp. 26 - 33
DOI: 10.13189/sa.2013.010103
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The Social Sanction of Divorce: Who Ultimately Pay the Social Costs of Its Adverse Effects?

Md.Mizanur Rahman^1,*, Dr.Vincentas Rolandas Giedraitis², Mrs.Tahmina Akhtar^3
1 Department of Social Work, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet-3114, Bangladesh
² Faculty of Economics, Vilnius University, Lithuania
³ Institute of Social Work and Research, Dhaka University, Bangladesh

ABSTRACT

Like marriage, divorce has remarkable effects on individuals, family and society. Marriage performs many basic and social functions whereas divorce involves diverse social impact (both positive and negative) on the divorcees. In Bangladesh, divorce has not received significant attention from the research community yet, though both marriage and divorce are socially sanctioned that recognize the changing patterns of the most important institutions - family and marriage - in the society. In order to explore the adverse effects of divorce, a cross-sectional study was conducted in 2007 over Sylhet district (north-east part of Bangladesh) by applying ‘Case Study' as method and ‘Interview and observation' as data collection techniques with a sample of twenty divorced women. The study elicited that child marriage still occurs though the rate is not higher than that of before. Polygamy is increasing at high rate resulted from the exercise of modern norms and values, satellite culture, professional and occupational diversity, reconstitution of nuclear family breaking down the joint family, poverty, and the like. Divorce rate is steadily increasing and its social effects are many and multi-facets. Women are the primary victims who carry most of the instantaneous consequences of divorce and ultimately pay most of the costs of its adverse effects.

KEYWORDS
Woman, Marriage, Divorce, Social Sanction, Social Costs, Adverse Effects

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(a). IEEE Format:
[1] Md.Mizanur Rahman , Dr.Vincentas Rolandas Giedraitis , Mrs.Tahmina Akhtar , "The Social Sanction of Divorce: Who Ultimately Pay the Social Costs of Its Adverse Effects?," Sociology and Anthropology, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 26 - 33, 2013. DOI: 10.13189/sa.2013.010103.

(b). APA Format:
Md.Mizanur Rahman , Dr.Vincentas Rolandas Giedraitis , Mrs.Tahmina Akhtar (2013). The Social Sanction of Divorce: Who Ultimately Pay the Social Costs of Its Adverse Effects?. Sociology and Anthropology, 1(1), 26 - 33. DOI: 10.13189/sa.2013.010103.