Ways to Get and End Marriage

Relationships between Marriage and Divorce Rituals during the Coronavirus

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ID4313388
AutoresJudit Balatonyi (0009-0005-8095-6444, University of Pecs, autor de correspondencia)
Año2024
Volumen15
Número6
Páginas753
Fecha de publicación2024-06-20
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaReligions (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444
EditorialMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/rel15060753
OpenAlexW4399860002
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas18

During the pandemic, Hungary was the only country in the world where the number of marriages not only decreased but also increased. Parallel to this, in the five years prior to the pandemic there were not as many divorces in Hungary as afterwards. Every year since late socialism, there were at least 10,000 fewer new marriages than marriages ending in divorce or death; a trend that was broken in 2019 when the government introduced new loans for married people at a favorable interest rate, representing a quasi-money injection to support people officially getting married (instead of merely cohabiting). Based on my digital anthropological research, I focus on the complex relationship between getting married and the end-of-marriage rituals. I found that the changes in the meanings of marriage influenced not only getting married but also the eventual end-of-marriage rituals. All these factors, as well as the specific reasons for divorce and separation (e.g., the desire to remarry), are related to the way in which end-of-marriage rituals are scripted and interpreted

Arranged Marriage · Pandemic · Sociology · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Gender Studies · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Medicine · Psychology

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