Factors of Divorce in Mazandaran Province

Divorce as a social problem, one of disconnection from family, has been affected by social structure and couple agency. Present paper has analyzed the causes of divorce Mazandaran province by mixed use of macro (value crisis) and micro (social exchange, homogamy amd need-expectation) theories. The used research method was qualitative, and documentary and content analysis that has been done by inverse questionnaire. 12101 divorce documents in courts of Mazandaran province have constituted the statistical population of this research which 980 document have been selected as sample size using formula Cochran. Findings showed that rate of divorce in Mazandaran province is reflected by four cultural, economic, social and personality factors that together could explain %11/4 of divorce variance in province. Results implies that society passage from traditional to modern order along with experiencing approximately distinct life with past, structure and agency factors will increase the probability of divorce.