Editing Divorce (section)

== Social attitudes ==
Attitudes toward divorce vary substantially across the world. Divorce is considered socially unacceptable by most of the population in certain sub-Saharan African countries such as Ghana, Uganda, Nigeria and Kenya, South Asian countries including India and Pakistan and South-East Asian countries such as the Philippines and Indonesia. The majority of the population considers divorce acceptable in Europe, Latin America and the United States. Divorce is also widely accepted in certain Muslim majority countries such as Jordan, Egypt and Lebanon, at least when men initiate it.<ref>{{Cite web|publisher=Pew Research Center|date=2014|title=Compare Global Views of Moral Issues|url=https://www.pewresearch.org/global/interactives/global-morality/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200723050956/https://www.pewresearch.org/global/interactives/global-morality/|archive-date=2020-07-23|access-date=2020-07-23 |language=en-US}}</ref>

[[Mauritania]] is unusual for having a long history of accepting and celebrating divorce.<ref name=":5">{{Cite news |last1=Maclean |first1=Ruth |last2=Boushnak |first2=Laura |date=2023-06-04 |title=No Shame. No Sorrow. Divorce Means It's Party Time in Mauritania. |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/04/world/africa/mauritania-divorce-parties.html |access-date=2023-06-04 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=4 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230604202526/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/04/world/africa/mauritania-divorce-parties.html |url-status=live }}</ref>  Although exact statistics are not available, Mauritania is believed to have the highest divorce rate by far in the world, and it is not unusual for adults in Mauritania to marry and divorce five to ten times during their lifetimes.<ref name=":5" />

Research has shown that unhappily married couples suffer 3–25 times the risk of developing clinical depression.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Tatiana D. Gray, Matt Hawrilenko, and James V. Cordova |date=2019 |title=Randomized Controlled Trial of the Marriage Checkup: Depression Outcomes |url=https://arammu.com/assets/research/MC%20Depression%20Outcomes.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Fink |first1=Brandi C. |last2=Shapiro |first2=Alyson F. |date=March 2013 |title=Coping Mediates the Association Between Marital Instability and Depression, but Not Marital Satisfaction and Depression |journal=Couple & Family Psychology |volume=2 |issue=1 |pages=1–13 |doi=10.1037/a0031763 |issn=2160-4096 |pmc=4096140 |pmid=25032063}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Maria R. Goldfarb & Gilles Trudel |date=2019 |title=Marital quality and depression: a review |journal=Marriage & Family Review |volume=55 |issue=8 |pages=737–763 |doi=10.1080/01494929.2019.1610136 |s2cid=165116052 |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/ref/10.1080/01494929.2019.1610136?scroll=top}}</ref>