Sixty percent of divorce cases in the Kingdom take place in the first year of marriage,judge said that.
“Which is considered higher than the global average of between 18 and 22 percent,”official data reveals that divorce rates have reached 35%.
Divorce rate in Jeddah was the highest (60 percent), followed by Riyadh (39 percent), Ahsa (20 percent) and the Eastern Province (18 percent), according to data released by the Family Development Center (FDC).
Sheikh Mohammed Al-Jirani, the judge at the endowments and inheritances department in the Ministry of Justice in Qatif, attributed divorce occurrences to many reasons, including the lack of Shariah awareness (25 percent), presence of organic and sexual diseases (5 percent), frequent travel and absence from home (5 percent), financial inadequacy and failure to meet the wife’s needs and leading luxurious life (20 percent), technological progress and social networking issues (20 percent), marital infidelity (15 percent), polygamy (10 percent) and absence of equity and justice between wives.
It would conduct a study aimed at determining reasons of the spiraling divorce rates in the Kingdom,last December ,the Justice Ministry said that.