Abstract:
Over a period, one or both of the marital partners becomes convinced that relationship
intolerable, or at least it is not working then as a solution the marriage becomes end up
(Fagan, 2012). This study investigated the prevalence, causes and consequences of divorce in
Dire incinni town, Ethiopia. Mixed methods design was employed for the study and both
qualitative and quantitative data were collected. For the quantitative data 145 randomly
selected households and for the qualitative part Ten (10) key informants selected purposively
from Dire inchini town and this eight (8) key informants divorced spouses who are believed
to be more knowledgeable about the issue under study and one (1) key informant selected
from women and children affairs office and one (1) key informant was selected from courts of
Dire inchini District. In addition to this 5-10 of Focus group discussion from this 5
voluntary (3 female and 2 male) and others 3 elders (male) and the left two (2) were the
religion of leaders (male) .Questionnaires were used to collect quantitative data while
qualitative data were collected through interviews, focus group discussions and document
analysis. The quantitative data were analyzed quantitatively using percentage and
meanwhile the qualitative data were narrated and paraphrased. The result of the study
indicated that the prevalence of divorce is increasing from time to time in the study area.
Questionnaire respondents indicate that 56% of households were divorced. The major causes
of divorce fall under social causes like poor communication, lack of interaction and conflict
management, lack of openness to each other, infidelity ,early marriage and addicted to
alcoholic drinks. The collected data were analyzed by descriptive statics like percentage,
frequency, mean and standard deviation. The survey results shows that addicted to alcoholic
drinks 110 (75.9), poor communication 87 (48.6), lack of interaction and conflict
management skills 101 (56.4) and with their mean of 4.98, 4.83, and4.32 were the most
social causes of divorce in the study area respectively. Besides to this as the survey results
shows Isolation 76 (52.4) and family breakdown 89 (53) and with their mean 4.43 and 4.31
were the most social consequence of divorce in the study are respectively. According to the
Dire Inchini town, there was a kind of divorce for several years; any stakeholder should
create awareness towards the consequence of divorce on parents as well as on the
community.
