The role of the Family in the marital selection of children a field study in the city of diwaniyah

Abstract

Abstract: In view of the great social and economic changes that society and individuals are exposed to as part of it, it has emerged that there is a change in the standards on which individuals are preferred in their marital choices, and sometimes contradict them, which caused the emergence of many social problems, such as high rates of marital problems, high rates of divorce, the emergence of deviations, etc. Of the problems. Therefore, the research aimed to identify the opinions of a group of 245 intending to marry towards their choice of their life partner in the city of Diwaniyah to be the research community, by uncovering the most important and first axes of the marital selection system that they adopt or prefer in their choice of their life partner for what this type of Research on knowledge and understanding of the nature of individuals' tendencies towards various life issues. Therefore, the research problem can be embodied in some of the questions that the research will answer, which are: What is the role of the family in marital choice? What is the effect of marital choice on family compatibility? What are the effects resulting from poor marital choice?

The research concluded that the percentage of males is predominant over females in the research community, as meeting young men who are about to get married was easier to talk to than females who are about to get married as well, and that the vast majority of the study sample falls in the age group of 25-35, i.e. the youth group, and it became clear that the distribution of individuals The sample according to which age stage prefers marriage, in the first order from 20-25 years at a rate of 46.9%, in the second order from 25-30 years by 40.8%, and in the third order, less than 20 years of age by 12.2%, and that haste in marital selection leads to Marital problems that may lead to divorce, and this was confirmed by the vast majority of the study sample.