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The nature and causes of marital breakdown amongst a selected group of South African Indian Muslims in the Durban Metropolitan Area and its consequences for family life.

dc.contributor.advisorStears, Louw-Haardt.
dc.contributor.authorKhan, Sultan.
dc.date.accessioned2012-11-01T14:33:40Z
dc.date.available2012-11-01T14:33:40Z
dc.date.created2001
dc.date.issued2001
dc.descriptionThesis (Ph.D.)-University of Durban-Westville, 2001.en
dc.description.abstractThe institutions of marriage and family have existed throughout human kind and continue to do so as we enter the twenty first century. These are important institutions that prepare individuals as social actors. The progress of society from its traditional form to present levels of modernity, has come with many consequences for the institutions of marriage and the family. This has been witnessed by high rates of marital breakdown and single parenthood in almost all societies. The causes of marriage and family breakdown are many, and complex. It is a multi-factored problem which social scientists and policy makers are battling to come to grips with since its escalation has enonnous social, economic and political consequences. The biggest victims of marital breakdown are children. Unless society comes to grips with this social problem, the institutions of marriage and the family are at risk of collapsing. For society to continue to prepare future social actors, it is paramount that these two institutions are preserved.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10413/7744
dc.language.isoen_ZAen
dc.subjectMuslims.en
dc.subjectIndians--South Africa--Marriage customs and rites.en
dc.subjectMarriage.en
dc.subjectTheses--Sociology.en
dc.titleThe nature and causes of marital breakdown amongst a selected group of South African Indian Muslims in the Durban Metropolitan Area and its consequences for family life.en
dc.typeThesisen

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