Why is the divorce rate increasing? SHOBHIT PANT AHMEDABAD MARCH 28 Divorce is on the rise. Whether it’s Delhi or Lucknow, Kerala or Punjab, Kolkata or Chennai or Ahmedabad, the upper classes or the middle classes, metros or semi-urban areas…the specter of divorce is nowhere to haunt us all. Why just in Delhi the figures go thus: 1960’s – 1-2 cases per year 1980 – 100-200 cases per year The 1990s – 1,000 cases per year This decade…a jump of 9000 cases per year ! Mumbai So far nearly 7,000 divorce cases have already been filed at the family court this year, and the number is expected to reach 7,200 by year-end — 60 per cent more than the 4,500 cases filed in 2005. Couples in the 25-35 age group accounted for 70 per cent of the cases, and 85 per cent of them were filed in the first three years of marriage. A lot of us have tried to understand why the divorce rate in India has been low for so many years ( post on divorc...
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