A sociological study on divorce in Van

Family is one of the institutions which have been affected by the alterations of this era when socio-cultural changes are widely experienced. A negative and attention-grabbing result of the sealterations on family is divorce. The fact of divorce, which had started increasing by 90's as results of some factors such as migration, urbanization, industrialization, alteration in values, increasing in the involvement of women in business life, etc., attracted the attention of researchers. In this study, divorces, which occurred in Van province where the number of divorce increased more than 4 times in last 15 years according to the data of TURKSTAT in 2018, are examined through the cases which are brought to court and resulted. The data used in this study had been collected through a research on a total of 25 divorce file issued between 2010-2014; namely, 5 files for each year. By using this data, a detailed analyze of divorce was made in terms of both causes and results. The study was composed of three sections and introduction part. In the first section, conceptual and theoretical framework was discussed. The methodology of the research was presented in the second section. The findings of the research are evaluated in the third section. According to the results of this study, some marriages which had ended up with divorce had a previous history of problems before the marriage commitment. Some of other marriages experienced problems during marriages of which primary problems were: cheating, violence, economic problems, psychological problems and negative intervention of mother-in-law and father-in-law.