Abstract

The study examined Divorce among women and its effect on Children Academic Development. Divorce is a legal separation of husband and wife so they can be free to remarry again. Ineffective communication, lack of intimacy, infertility, financial status and bad behavior were seen as the major causes, and the result of this divorce lead to poor development on children of the victims. The major findings of the study was to examine divorce among women and its effects on children academic development. The research method adopted in this research include, the expository, analytic and critical methods. It is on this note, that the study embark to analyze the causes of divorce among women and its effect on children academic development. Based on the findings, it was shown that infertility, lack of intimacy, lack of communication among couples are the causes of divorce among women researcher recommended that government should make an effort to implement a higher degree for granting divorce to couple and the government should set- up marriage counselling center to ensure that couple accommodate each other.