Divorce rate high among women in their 30s

By ARAB NEWS

JEDDAH: Most Saudi women who got their divorce in the year 2008 were aged between 30 and 34, Al-Eqtisadiah newspaper said, citing an official report released by the Department of General Statistics and Information.

The daily said 25,403 Saudi women between 30 and 34 years of age were divorced in 2008, followed by 21,430 women aged between 35 and 39.

The report put the total number of Saudi women who got divorce that year at 128,090, the newspaper said.

The report also revealed that the majority of 14,589 Saudi men who divorced their wives in 2008 were aged between 40 and 44. It said 63,616 Saudi men aged between 35 and 80 years remain single, and 31,678 of them were aged between 35 and 39 years.

More than 2,000 men in their 70s or 80s have never got married, according to the report.

Earlier studies indicated that by 2015, Saudi Arabia will have at least 5 million spinsters.

The number of divorces is increasing in the Kingdom, with nearly 62 percent of marriages ending in divorce.

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MUSLIM

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It is high time for honourable citizens of Saudi Arabia to wake up and shun their hypocrytic attitudes toward their suffering sisters. Our Prophet PBUH said make marriages easier so that to make adultry more difficult(highly shamful sin).But its vice versa here in saudi Arabia. Males even if he earns SR 2000 monthly goes to baharian to commit adultry. This is the bitter truth. Allhumdulillah god bless this govt they are making every possible thing they so that each and every saudi should have some decent earning if you could just see rest of the world no Govt are so bother about the well being of their citizen then this Saudi Govt. But the attitude of people is realy very painful they do't want to work they want only money and immatating life style of westners. Often we here in media that father has prevented his doughter from getting marry because of unislamic reason. My dear brothers and sister please fear ALLAH against this evil practise which is ruining your blessed country. Facebook and twitter has been very well used to propogate some vested interest which has cause more damage than good. So why do't use these tools to make awareness about the potentail danger which awaiting just at the cross road (5 million spinster by 2015). No body wish to see the suffering and humilation of their sisters. Though iam an expatriate logically it is non of my business .But iam a muslim and my beloved prophet said every Muslim around the globe is brother and sister in Islam hence its my obligatory duty to do whatever i can for my islamic brother and sisters within the permisible limit. May ALLAH GUIDE US THE TRUE PATH.AAMEEN

SETH

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Divorce is such a tragedy for the individuals involved and for society. I pray this scourge be solved. Perhaps true love and mutual respect is the answer.

LUCRATE

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This is what our Islamic society is showing Islam to the whole world. Why don't they 5 million marry arabs if not non-arabs. Can anybody tell me who is responsible for this? Is the whole saudi society responsible for this or only those men who are marrying non-saudi woman for their pleasure. I wonder why after having the best religion and so much wealth still they have some serious issues.

READER

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I wonder, what would be the reason for these guys to divorce their wives? This is such a bad act in Islam. What ever the problem is they should always try and peacefully resolve all the issues. Divorce is not an answer to all the problems.

MAJID

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And Saudis have no one to blame but themselves and their culture and traditions.
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