Influences of divorce and children’s child-care (Nafqah)‎

Abstract EN

Divorce is one of the disliked permissible acts.

It is only recommendable when there are no other solutions left to remedy the demolishing marriage.

For some divorce loving husbands, divorce is a means to take revenge, or to express anger, or to replace wives.

These disliked acts in Islam make it worse, when the divorcing husbands run away from their responsibility to pay the child-care for his children his own flesh and blood.

This paper looks into the psychological and behavioral effects of divorce on children, children’s child-care, its philosophy, its shariah rulings, its amount, and cases of its exemption.

This gives the foundation to discuss reasons behind children’s deprivation of child-care and the resultant harms affecting both the children and the community.

For solution, this research proposes obligatory salary deduction and imposing of punishment on the defaulting fathers, and formation of a special welfare fund to pay the child-care when the father defaults or delays the payment.