Malawi is a southeast African country inhabited by the Azande people. Among the Azande, …show more content…
When a woman is seen as incompetent in the case of fertility it reflects on the woman as being insignificant. Divorce is not a looked at positively by both societies, but is more harmful to the woman. The process of divorce is not a troublesome action in either culture. When a man has decided he no longer wants to continue the marriage he can just send the woman away. The aspects of their way of divorce may be viewed as peculiar to the people of American culture. For Americans fertility is rarely the cause of divorce. This is possibly due to the availability of new reproduction technologies. NRTs provide an abundant amount of solutions for couples having difficulties with fertility. In addition, having offspring isn’t a priority as it is for the Azande and Cayapas. Divorce in America is not appealing, but is not unusual either. About 48 percent of marriages in American will end by divorce within the first twenty years. (Skolnick, p. 122) A large amount of those divorces are caused by a lack of