Twenty-seven-year-old Dina Ismail threw a party on Wednesday to celebrate her divorce after being married for 40 days, then fighting to get a divorce for the past two years. The data from the 2017 Egyptian national census revealed that the total number of divorcees in Egypt had reached 710,850, Shakwy said. 200,000 marriages ended in divorce in 2017, most of them occurred with couples aged between 25-30 years old, she added. The Egyptian church requires mandatory awareness courses for couples getting married, Shawky said, as do the ministries of endowments and health, to help prepare the couples for the reality of married life. The leading causes for divorces in Egypt were cited as financial troubles, social conflicts between spouses, lack of responsibility, drug addiction, and the meddling of family and friends in the married couple’s life.

Source: Egypt Independent February 02, 2018 10:41 UTC