The Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tehran Journal of Social Problems of Iran 2008-8973 7 2 2016 10 22 Exploring the Youth's Perceptions of the Divorce Experience: A Qualitative Study in Tehran City Exploring the Youth's Perceptions of the Divorce Experience: A Qualitative Study in Tehran City 1 28 63789 10.22059/ijsp.2016.63789 FA Rasoul Sadeghi Associate Professor, University of Tehran Marzieh Ebrahimi Assistant professor, Shahid Beheshti University Nasibeh Zanjari Assistant Professor of Social Health and Welfare, IRCA, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences Journal Article 2016 08 02 <span>Due to increasing divorce rates among young couples in recent years, the paper using emic approach and social interpretivism aims to explore the experiences of divorce. Purposive sampling with maximum diversity and theoretical saturation is used for sampling. Thus, 25 divorced male and female aged 15-30 years old is interviewed in Tehran city. The findings in the four categories; reasons for divorce, attitude toward divorce before become divorced, challenges during divorce process, and life issues after divorce. The vulnerability of females in the divorce process (before, during, and after divorce) is more than males. Divorced females have experienced many emotional, economic, and social problems in new life after divorce.  In general, results indicated divorce as process, multi-dimensional and socially constructed. Divorce is a multi-phase process; various determinants have shaped situations in before divorce (decision making), during divorce (action to divorce), and after divorce (coping with new life). In conclusion, divorce is not happened in a vacuum, but it happened in a socio-cultural contexts that affected the process and as well as the consequences of divorce.  </span> <span>Due to increasing divorce rates among young couples in recent years, the paper using emic approach and social interpretivism aims to explore the experiences of divorce. Purposive sampling with maximum diversity and theoretical saturation is used for sampling. Thus, 25 divorced male and female aged 15-30 years old is interviewed in Tehran city. The findings in the four categories; reasons for divorce, attitude toward divorce before become divorced, challenges during divorce process, and life issues after divorce. The vulnerability of females in the divorce process (before, during, and after divorce) is more than males. Divorced females have experienced many emotional, economic, and social problems in new life after divorce.  In general, results indicated divorce as process, multi-dimensional and socially constructed. Divorce is a multi-phase process; various determinants have shaped situations in before divorce (decision making), during divorce (action to divorce), and after divorce (coping with new life). In conclusion, divorce is not happened in a vacuum, but it happened in a socio-cultural contexts that affected the process and as well as the consequences of divorce.  </span> https://ijsp.ut.ac.ir/article_63789_b89bedbbe18d92339d40433397da782b.pdf