The age distribution of the couples studied had a wide range: for husbands, it was between 20 and 63; for wives, between 18 and 48. The mean age of men was 40 years; for women, it was 32 years (Table 2). The duration of marriage ranged from 1 to 27 years; the average was about nine years.
Religion: Sharia-based Iranian law states that the legal age for marriage is 13 for girls and 15 for boys, but marriages can still be carried out at a younger age with the consent of fathers and permission from court judges. This has enabled a culture whereby child marriage is considered somewhat socially acceptable.
First half of 2020
Iran's average divorce-to-marriage ratio, in the first half of last year, was 28.7%. Alborz province, with 46.1%, and Sistan and Baluchestan, with 6.5%, had the highest and lowest divorce-to-marriage ratios, respectively, in the same time period.
He noted that the average age of marriage for men living in urban and rural areas is 27.9 and 26.2 years respectively, while the figure for urban and rural women stands at 23.5 and 21.4 years.
In the first half of 2020 the ratio stood at 28.7 percent for the whole of Iran. Alborz province had the highest ratio, at 46.1 percent, followed by Tehran and Mazandaran at 44 and 42 percent. Meanwhile, Sistan and Baluchestan recorded the lowest ratio of divorces per marriage, at just 6.5 percent.
Catholic. According to the data by the Pew Research Center, Catholics had one of the lowest incidences of divorce, with 19% having been divorced out of 4,752 interviewed. Even with such a large survey group, the margin of error is still quite small at around +/-1.5%.
The Maldives has the highest divorce rate in the world, at approximately 5.5 divorces per 1,000 people. This has been an issue for some time now, with more and more couples deciding to end their marriages instead of choosing to stay together.
In practice: Polygamy is not common among men. Most women also do not marry until their twenties. In 2014, the average age of marriage for women was 23, although hundreds of girls under 13, even under 10, were forcibly married by their families. The average age for men was 28, the government reported.
On September 24, 2006, the Iranian parliament passed a bill approving the determination of the citizenship of Iranian women married to foreign men. According to the bill, couples' children, if born in Iran, can acquire Iranian citizenship after turning the situation and leaving their father's nationality.
Overall, for women age 25-49, the median age at marriage is 18.6 years. This figure is slightly higherin urban areas (19.1 years) than in rural areas (18.4 years). Among Pakistan's four provinces, the median age is highest in NWFP and Punjab and substantially lower in Baloehistan and Sindh.
Around 68% of the population is married and 0.57% are divorced! This shows that despite all the 'family problems' the family system of the country remains intact.
Religion was discussed as the most important cause of divorce. Participants expressed that a lack of religious beliefs, brought on by a rapid adoption of Western culture, was the major reason behind the increased divorce rate in the country. The foundation of Iranian culture is the adherence to religious beliefs.
Nearly 50% of marriages in Kuwait end in divorce, a higher proportion than in the US. And one-third of marriages result in divorce in Jordan, Lebanon, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates.
Dowry laws have also been changed. Two years ago, the maximum legal dowry was reduced to 110 gold coins, roughly $29,400, in order to make the proceeds of such action less appealing to women and to deter defrauding of men by unscrupulous women.
Since the Pahlavi era fewer Iranians have practised cousin marriages. There is a strong preference for marrying a first cousin, but no specific preference for the father's brother's daughter. For the quarter of women married after age 21 it was found that the incidence of consanguinity declined to 28%.
The experts recalled that under the current version of Iran's Islamic Penal Code, any act deemed “offensive” to public decency is punishable by 10 days to two months in prison or 74 lashes. Women seen in public without a veil could be sentenced to between 10 days and two months in prison or a fine.
Iranian law does not allow Iranian unmarried couples to live together. It states people of opposite sex can not to be alone together unless they are family members or married together. But in practice most Iran hotels don't apply the married couple rules to a non-Muslim and non-Iranian unmarried couple.
Regardless of the condemnation or the denial of the Islamic Republic, what has emerged is the concept of “White Marriage,” where men and women voluntarily choose to cohabit without formal commitment or fear of social and religious stigma, or its political consequences.
Under Book 5, article 638 of the Islamic Penal Code, women in Iran who do not wear a hijab may be imprisoned from 10 days to two months, and/or required to pay fines from 50,000 up to 500,000 rials adjusted for inflation.
The Iranian Civil Code also reflects deep gender inequalities in its divorce law (Arts. 1120-1157). With only a few exceptions, a husband can divorce his wife “whenever he wishes to do so” (Art. 1133).
In the past the parents and older members of the family arranged almost all marriages. This is still the case in rural areas and with traditional families. Modern couples however, choose their own mate but their parents' consent is still very important and is considered by both sides.
If you are going to marry an Iranian man, you can do it anywhere. But if you want to register your marriage, you need to have a marriage certification. By marrying an Iranian man, the woman is getting eligible to request an Iranian birth certificate and visa. But, the marriage must be official and registered.
The team found that more developed countries with higher gender equality have the happiest couples. Based on their research, the study names Hungary as the country where couples are most in love with each other.
Slovenia. Slovenia is one of the easiest countries in the world to file for divorce, due to its employment of a no-fault system, allowing couples to file for divorce without citing a reason they would need to prove.
In the Netherlands, a spouse who wishes to divorce simply needs to assert that his or her marriage has broken down irretrievably. That is sufficient for the court to grant a divorce. Challenging the petition is virtually useless, the divorce itself can be obtained fairly easily.