Deputy minister too embarrassed to mention other reasons for divorce

Hannah Yeoh revealed that she was too embarrassed to mention the other factors cited for divorce in Parliament this afternoon.

Earlier, the deputy women, family and community development minister told the Dewan Rakyat that among the reasons were wives choosing to wash clothes at night, participating in group tours, eating in the car, husbands earning lesser than their wives and snoring.

She had cited statistics from the Selangor Syariah Department.

Following this, PKR strategic communication director Fahmi Fadzil published a list which contained 23 reasons, with those mentioned by Yeoh highlighted in yellow, on Twitter.

This was also shared by other Twitter users.

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Responding to the list, Yeoh tweeted: “Those in yellow are the examples I chose and was not embarrassed to mention. The rest, especially the first and second, I was embarrassed to repeat them in Parliament.”

Topping the list was husbands complaining that their wives' posterior was not smooth followed by wives complaining about their husbands' performance in bed.

Other factors stated included wives recalling the sexual prowess of their past lovers, husbands who were suspicious of their wives, meals being prepared late, fighting over TV programmes, failing to flush the toilet.

Yeoh had also responded to a question from Kangar MP Amin Ahmad on the reasons behind divorce cases involving couples who have been married for five years or less.

Based on the ministry's statistics, the deputy minister said there were 2,932 divorce cases in the Federal Territory between 2013 and 2017.

She added that the data for other states are still being compiled.

As for non-Muslims, Yeoh said the National Registration Department recorded 14,440 divorce cases from 2013 to 2017 involving couples married for five years or less.

The deputy minister said the first five years of marriage are considered the most challenging period as a survey in 2014 found that more than one-third of divorce cases occurred during this timeframe. -Mkini