title: Family, marriage and divorce in a Hausa community: a sociological model.
abstract: "The aim of this article is to show how a 'traditional' society may produce a household system in which the structural tensions are no less intense than in the Western world. Muslim Hausa society (in northern Nigeria) has one of the highest rates of divorce (and remarriage) in the world. An explanation is sought here in terms of the economic and organisational requirements of a subsistence farming system that is always potentially short of labour. Divorce is a solution to otherwise unacceptable pressures, particularly on young women, in a society that requires them to be subordinate and marginal within the extended family. The data presented here were collected between 1979 and 1989 in the Niger valley of Sokoto State in northern Nigeria." (SUMMARY IN FRE)
mesh_terms: D000349:Africa; D017954:Africa South of the Sahara; D000354:Africa, Western; D003469:Culture; D003710:Demography; D003906:Developing Countries; D004243:Divorce; D004467:Economics; D004651:Employment; D005191:Family Characteristics; D006280:Health Workforce; D008393:Marriage; D009549:Nigeria; D011153:Population; D011154:Population Characteristics; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors
keywords: Africa; Africa South Of The Sahara; Cultural Background; Demographic Factors; Developing Countries; Divorce; Economic Factors; English Speaking Africa; Family And Household; Human Resources; Labor Force; Marriage; Marriage Patterns; Nigeria; Nuptiality; Population; Population Characteristics; Remarriage; Socioeconomic Factors; Western Africa