Marriage and Divorce- A Social Relationship in Bangalore City

The social and Sociological factors were discovered more responsible for family conflicts particularly among more higher and middle classes them economic and physical factors. Of the total cases studied the first initiate in filing the suit in the court was taken by women. Husband and wives with higher incomes, with higher level of educational attainment and with service are more likely to take initiate for legally breaking the marriage than the couples with low income. In most of the divorce cases, the wife left the husband¿s house long before the filing for divorce. Though the subject of divorce is changed with emotion yet it may be asserted that marital stability, divorce and post-divorce are not a matter of rational planning. Failure of marriage is not the result of lack of knowledge on the part of the husband and wife or lack of facilities and comforts, father even with the best of intentions and intelligence, partners may not always make a happy home. People with modern values choose the alternative of divorce without necessarily having the idea of remarriage in their minds.