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“We Used to Have Normal Divorce Rates, but Then During the War, the Numbers Went up 80%”
I recently met a woman called Anna who is from a small town near Kyiv in Ukraine. We have a little chat.
22/07/2024
Ruth Silbermayr
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Anna, who is a lawyer, tells me about her job in Ukraine: “I used to oversee family law cases and helped my clients get a divorce. After the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine War, divorce rates went up a notch. We used to have normal divorce rates, but then during the war, the numbers went up 80%.”
I ask her: “What was the reason divorce rates increased?”
“One of the main factors was domestic violence. Occurrences of domestic violence increased quite a lot during the war.”
“Do courts still work normally in Ukraine nowadays?”
“They do, but the courts have many more cases due to the war, and people have to wait a very long time to receive a verdict.”
Have you ever met a person from Ukraine?