The role of cyberspace in the collapse of the family from the perspective of Yazd city consultants

The Internet in our society is accused of destroying the foundation of the family and cooling the relations between its members. This study seeks to investigate this claim and study the role of the Internet in the destruction of marital relationships. The research method is phenomenological. Using purposive sampling method, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 15 family counselors in Yazd. Findings suggest that the Internet alone cannot play a role in family breakdown. In fact, the gaps and conflicts in the couple's relationship, which occur in different ways, pave the way for Internet intervention and further cooling of the relationship and eventually its collapse. Accordingly, the first finding of this study is based on the lack of independent agency of the role of the Internet in family breakdown. According to Internet specialist, in addition to the problems of daily married life, it plays three main roles in the collapse of the family: the role of aggravating, the role of facilitating and the role of accelerating. The results of this study showed that despite the view of technical determinism, the Internet itself is not the cause of collapse and major change in relationships between spouses and factors such as culture of Yazd people, social, economic, emotional and ... play a significant role along with technology that suggests it suggests for solving these problems increasing the media literacy of couples is necessary