Lack of Love and Sexual Incompatibility as Factors to Divorce among the Residents of Bahirdar
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2009-06
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
A survey study was conducted in Bahirdar to study lack of love and
sexual incompatibility as contributing factors to divorce and perceived
«reasons" of divorce among the residents. A sample of 100 male and 100
female divorcees filled out questionnaires. The questionnaire contains
three sections. The first part assessed the characteristics of the
respondents that are related to divorce proneness. The second part of the
questionnaire is a kind of check li st for lack of love and sexual
incompatibility factors. The participants had to answer «Yes" or «No" for
each of the 35 items. The third part has only one question aimed to
determine the main «perceived causes" of divorce. Purposive sapling
technique was used to select the participants of the study. Percentages,
descriptive statistics, and t-test were used to analyze the collected data.
From the result, factors related to lack of love and sexual incompatibility
were found to be contributing factors to divorce. In addition, some
demographic factors like age at marriage, wide age difference, duration of
engagement, type of marriage and duration of marriage were found to be
reasons for divorce in Bahirdar. Significant difference was found between
males and females for some of the factors. Suggestions are made on how
to reduce the rate of dissolution of marriages.
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Lack of Love, and Sexual Incompatibility