Pakshal SecretryAIR 8 · CSE 2025 · 255 wordsTheir whole copy
Opening · a figure
As per UN women report, the divorce rates in India have risen by 350%. in past decade, and marriage age as per NFHS-5 has increased to 20 years among female.
Body · points and prose
factors contributing to shift
(A) Social factors (1) Rise of Nuclear families → 55% (as per Census 2011) → family disruption. (2) Higher trends of education among girls → Higher age of marriage (3) Influence of western ideas and values → Divorce culture of west (4) "dual burden" and "weakend family" → family disruption and divorce (5) Acceptance of late marriage and divorce by the society.
(B) Economic factor (6) Independent women → speak out against evils like Domestic violence (7) Time poverty among couples due to dual working → no time for each other (8) Economic empowerment of girls → delayed marriage (9) Service sector jobs → cosmopolitan living → Companion late marriages
(C) Cultural factors (10) Cultural adaptation towards divorce and late marriages (11) Influence of western culture on family. (12) Role of Technology → cultural hybridisation → Eg Delayed marriages for reel making.
Impact of Trend
Close · a way forward
| Positive | Negative |
|---|---|
| 1. More autonomy to women. | 1. Decline of sacredness of marriage. |
| 2. Improved status of girl child | 2. Marriage as institution on decline |
| 3. Modernisation & more liberty | 3. Less fertility years due to delayed marriage |
| 4. Value of Privacy |
Thus, need of hour is to modernise without westernising and with preserving our values.