Shafaq According to the latest statistics of the Ministry of Communications,…

the number of phone users in Iraq amounted up to about 23 million people.

"The mobile enhances social relations, but in an advanced civilized manner." According to professor of sociology at the University of Baghdad Kamil Marayati ". He told Shafaq that "Any modern technology affects the social aspect  negatively and positively. According to sociology there is a theory  says the changes has two sides  the material and moral sides, and often the material aspect precedes the moral and causes a gap of civilization and the gap in Iraq is very wide."

As for the increasing incidences of divorce, with the entry of this technique according to reports, Marayati said, "We are not accustomed to this new technology. Surely spoken many families, have got the problems that lead to divorce, because  we do not accept   the multiplicity of relations, unlike European countries."

According to the latest statistics, the divorce rate in the Kurdistan Region alone, amounted up to 70%, as the researchers attribute that to the side multi-relations among married couples, which impacted the family system.