Saeed Aram, Director of Welfare in Mazandaran Province said, “The number of single mothers covered by the Mazandaran welfare program has increased from 1.5 to 2%.”
“The number of divorces increased from 18% to 29% from 2009 to 2010, the number of divorcee women and the number of wives that have gone to prison have doubled in the past four years,” he added. (State-run ISNA news agency – June 10, 2015)