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Saudi Divorce Rate Increases as Lockdown Ended


Tue 25 Aug 2020 | 06:00 PM
Yassmine Elsayed

The monthly data issued by the Saudi Ministry of Justice revealed some shocking facts, that is, the rate of porce got high!

The details explaine that the rate of porce, after the general lockdown due to coronavirus ended, reached 4,079 cases in July, meaning that it increased by 96.7% compared to the last year data.

Monthly data issued by the Saudi Ministry of Justice indicated that 53 per cent of the total July porce certificates were issued in Riyadh and Mecca and that the number of porce bonds issued daily across all regions of the Kingdom ranged between 117 and 289.

Monthly porce cases for the previous 12 months ranged between 134 and 7,500.

Gulf News quoted Family counsellor Ahmed Al Ghamdi saying: "Pushing children to marry at an early age is one of the main reasons for raising the porce rates in Saudi Arabia."

Al-Ghamdi said Saudi families often marry their children at an early age, when the son may not appreciate marital life and not know that marriage is a responsibility.

“In the first months of marriage, the son begins to feel bored and asks to return to a life of freedom, and from here the problems between the spouses begin and eventually lead to porce,” Al Ghamdi said.

He added that under-25's who wed are more likely to break up.

“The parts of our brains that control our ability to think things over, not be reactive, not engage in risky behaviour, aren’t fully developed for a lot of people until their mid-20's," he said. "And most people aren’t financially ready to marry before 25 — they’re completing schooling or entering work."