Marital Dissolution in Asia, 6-7 May 2010 - Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore

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Marital Dissolution in Asia

Submission deadline: 23 November 2009

6 - 7 May 2010

Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore

Website: http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg/events_categorydetails.asp?categoryid=6&eventid=986

Asia is characterized by a wide diversity of patterns in both marital formation and marital dissolution. Changes in divorce rates have been linked to ideational change, shifts in education and labor force participation of women, changing nature of spouse selection, changes in marriage age, extent of social support for divorced women, changes in religious and civil laws regulating divorce and changes in life expectancy.

In the less wealthy countries of Asia, divorce rates have varied tremendously in the past, from very low rates in South Asian countries to very high rates in the Malay-Muslim populations of Southeast Asia. It is only when the traditional marriage and kinship systems in these countries are understood, along with the pressures under which they are placed by social and economic developments, that trends in divorce can be understood.