Arab Naz * Sajjad Husain ** Nasim Khan Mahsud *** Divorce among Parents and its Impacts on Personality and Socialization of Children in Malakand Division ABSTRACT Recent studies and research approve the decline in rate of marriage and increase in divorce throughout the globe. Although divorce is an abominable act both culturally and spiritually that is dealt in disgusting and almost opposing manner, yet is found vis-à-vis marriage in variety of forms following numerous causative factors. Divorce is mainly caused by the commission of adultery by one partner or both, rushing into marriage, two people simply growing apart, or ultimately, marriage not being taken seriously in the first place. Relationally, the ratio of divorce among * Associate Professor and Chairman Department of Sociology University of Malakand, Pakistan ** PhD Scholar/Lecturer in Social Work University of Malakand, Pakistan *** Lecturer Department of Sociology, AIOU, Islamabad, Pakistan