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COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF RESPONSIBILITIES OF HUSBAND AND WIFE IN WESTERN AND ISLAMIC FAMILY SYSTEM
Abubakar G Ibrahim and Jummai Saratu Abubakar

ABSTRACT
This paper highlights key concepts and gives an overview of the husband and wife responsibilities as one of the key element of prosperous, effective and efficient marital life. The paper focuses on enhancing stability among the married couples by adhering to their responsibilities. Each society has its own rules and expectation for husband and wife which are not different between genders but also between cultures. Husband and wife have standards and specific responsibilities to do, and they must live up to those responsibilities. However, in most societies, domestic responsibilities become a major source of marital conflicts among the marital couples. While examining strict adherence to responsibilities of the married couples, the paper recommends that couples should live up to expectation on the foundation of strong moral principles of equity, moral fairness respect and social justice in the discharge of their numerous responsibilities. The methodology is based on secondary sources of data for preceding scholars had been employed to strengthen its way to a simple conclusion.


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