Social media networks including Facebook and WhatsApp play a big role in Saudi Arabia’s increasing divorce rate, experts in the conservative kingdom have said.
More than 30,000 divorces take place in the kingdom every year or 82 every day, Arab News, a Saudi Arabian English daily reported.
Other reasons include a lack of understanding between spouses, cultural and educational differences, extramarital affairs and financial and family problems.
According to a survey covering marriage officials, 20 percent of divorces take place as a result of extramarital affairs unveiled through the exchange of messages and photos on the social media.
Analyst Badr Almotawa said the problem stems from a deterioration of moral values.
