Özet:

The family, which is considered a social system, has lost some of its characteristics as a result of social transformations, bringing new meanings to it in many points, such as family relationships, family structure and family types. The changing dynamics of the family, the changes and transformations revealed by the socio-cultural and economic processes have led to the deterioration of family unity and the increase in divorce rates. Therefore, the issue of family and divorce has been the field of study of different disciplines in recent years. Studies, which were focused on women, focused on the social, cultural and economic difficulties that women experienced in the divorce process, observed that divorce was addressed from the window of the woman. However, the experience of divorce has been shown to be more limited to the studies of the other actors about men than women. The aim of this study was based on analyzing how divorce, which has different effects on both sexes, occurs through the experiences of men, through their stories. Starting from this goal, men’s perspective on marriage, how the process before and after divorce is experienced, the impact of divorce on their social lives, the strategies of dealing with divorce have been tried to be understood through their speeches. In this study, a thorough interview with 30 men divorced based on the quality research pattern was made and data was collected. Research finds that men experience feelings like sadness, loneliness in divorce processes, but undermine this situation in order to appear strong, change in their social environments and especially in their friendship relationships, have been economically challenged in this process, and have been confronted with prior judgments about adapting to the post-divorce social life.

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