Divorce In India Becomes More Common As Romance Gains Importance

GLOBAL POST -- Apr 23 -- For thousands of years in India, marriages were contracts of servitude that sent a daughter off on a one-way trip to her husband’s family home. Now, though, as women are gaining independence through education and the workforce, a new cultural obsession with romance and personal fulfillment has raised the bar for a happy marriage. India’s once negligible divorce rate is being reported at 6%. Divorce laws are being relaxed, and unfortunately the justice system is being abused as men and women alike are trying to escape from unsatisfying marriages. At least among Internet users, the problem knows no geographical boundaries. About 60 percent of the 50,000 customers who have registered with SecondShaadi.com, an online matchmaking service for divorced Indians that launched a year ago, live outside India's five largest cities; more than a third live outside the 20 largest cities. FULL ARTICLE @ HUFFINGTON POST

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