It Is Not a Big Deal I Can Do It Too Influence of Parental Divorce on Professional Women s Marital Experience in Turkey

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2011-11-01

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KAVAS, SERAP
Hoşgör, Hatice Ayşe

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This article reports on a study of how parental divorce affects the marriage and divorce experiences of professional women in Turkey. Drawing on the retrospective accounts of eight professional women in relation to their own divorce and those of their parents, this study highlights the role of parental divorce and cultural context in adult children's attitudes, beliefs, and experiences regarding their own union formation. Based on this small qualitative sample, results demonstrate that parental divorce affected women's entire lives, with considerable impact on their commitment to marriage and view of divorce in general. They learn from their parents that marriages can be broken when they do not function properly. As a result, instead of being more patient or self- sacrificing, as is frequently advised to women in Turkish society, the women in this study readily tended toward divorce as a viable solution to marital problems.

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Commitment to marriage, Parental divorce, Professional women, Qualitative research

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/34343

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Journal of Divorce & Remarriage

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https://doi.org/10.1080/10502556.2011.619902

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Department of Sociology, Article

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S. KAVAS and H. A. Hoşgör, “It Is Not a Big Deal I Can Do It Too Influence of Parental Divorce on Professional Women s Marital Experience in Turkey,” Journal of Divorce & Remarriage, pp. 565–585, 2011, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/34343.