Problem of Marriage and Divorce Among Young Couples
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2000-02
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Once a Parish priest told me that divorce rate among the Catholics in his parish is
alarming He said, 'the more people wed the more they divorce,' Most of the
divorcees are among the young couples. Last year, when 1 met three of my old
friends in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, they told me that they had divorced their
wives and remarried.
Every time one opens a newspaper or switches on a television he/she will never
miss something on marriage problems What has gone wrong with marriage
institution today? I asked myself.
There are numbers of factors, which have contributed to the increase of divorce
cases today among young couples. Young couples this work means those who are
married from 0-5 years of marriage. In chapter three, some of the factors that
cause divorce are discussed at length. It is a result of some research I did in
Magomeni and Manzese Parishes, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Most of the
examples given in this work are from East Africa and few from Zambia.
While reading the Post Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Ecclesial in Africa of
John Paul 11, the same concern about marriage is expressed in major Challenges
emphasized almost unanimously by the Episcopal Conferences of Africa, is the
concern of the Christian marriage and family life.
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Marriage, Divorce, Pastoral, Traditional Marriage