Reflection on meeting

Date: Tuesday 9^th October, 2012

 

Venue: W104

 

Time: 11:30 a.m

 

Chairman: Ahmed Nabil

 

Secretary: Ahmed Naser

 

Participant, in the role of family court representative: Abdulla Reehan

 

Participant, representing women’s rights: Khuloud

 

Topic: “Divorce in the UAE “

 

 

Ahmed Nabil started the meeting discussing about a main huge problem in the UAE; it’s the growth of divorce in the UAE and how to reduce it. Invited to list the main reasons for divorce in this country, Khuloud said:

a) Family interference                

 

b) Marriage to foreign nationalities

 

c) Dowries

 

d) Arranged marriages

 

Abdulla Reehan talked about the adverse psychological effect of divorce on children. Also, he wanted some suggestions and different ideas to know how to reduce divorce.

a) Khuloud spotlighted a main thing that might let the married couples get divorced, which is parents are poisoning the couples’ minds to get divorce and let them get married again. So what’s better to do is to practise living in close proximity to extended family which often causes interference in a married couple’s life by other family members.

 

b) Ahmed Naser gave an example of one of his friends who had married a foreigner: he was a local man with an Omani mother who had married an Omani girl. Although both were Arabs, they had different customs and traditions which caused them marital problems.

 

c) The high amount of dowry payments was discussed as a cause of early friction and discontent.

 

d) Khuloud mentioned that arranged marriages could also lead to resentment and separation and divorce.

 

 

 

 

 

Recommendations:

 

Mr. Ahmed Nabil and Mr. Ahmed Nasser gave some recommendations which are:-

 

1-  Make educational lectures to introduce the lifestyle of married couples and the possible problems that can occur for the two kinds, male and female

 

2-  Create a period of time for the couples to live alone before divorce and see if they are willing to live alone without needing the other before proceeding with the divorce.

 

3-  Let the female and the male interact with each other in the work place and in the educational life with respecting limits so they learn how to act in the presence of the other”

The meeting was well controlled by Ahmed Nabil. All members contributed to the discussion.

 

Ahmed Nabil ended the meeting at 11:50a.m, by thanking the participants in a polite way for coming.

 

 

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