An Anthropological Study On Increasing The Divorce Rate In Mysore City

Divorce is the dissolution of a social tie, but it is also possible that attitudes about divorce flow across social ties. The divorce can spread between friends, siblings, and coworkers, and there are clusters of divorcees that extend two degrees of separation in the network. We also find that popular people are less likely to get divorced, divorcees have denser social networks, and they are much more likely to remarry other divorcees. Interestingly, we do not find that the presence of children influences the likelihood of divorce, but we do find that each child reduces the susceptibility to being influenced by peers who get divorced. In the recent years a steady increase in incidence of divorce has been noticed in Metropolitan cities and other small cities also. Every year, almost 2000 to 3000 divorce petitions are filed and almost similar numbers are disposed off in the family courts in Bangalore city. It is observed that there has been a consistent rise in the incidence of divorce, about 17.25 percent from 1991 to 2000, which further increased to 31.9. Percent in 2001, onwards, indicating a rise of 14.00 percent during the decade. In Mysore city also we find more than 2–3 divorce cases are registered in courts. An average of 5.89 percent of divorce cases is disposed in courts.