Changing Families
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anthropological family research
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Child Support Act
childhood after separation
Conjugal Divide
Contemporary Society
Court Welfare Officer
Custodial Parents
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ethnographic analysis
family sociology
financial arrangements divorce
financial transactions
Ga Ga
Human Kindness
Hunky Dory
Inter-personal Conflict
Joint Custody
kinship studies
marital separation
Matrimonial Home
National Marriage Guidance Council
Newcastle Research
Non-custodial Father
Non-custodial Parents
Non-resident Parent
Nuclear Family Household
Post-divorce Family
post-divorce family life
Post-divorce Relationships
post-separation family dynamics UK
Pulau Langkawi
qualitative interviews
Sally's Image
Sally’s Image
Sibling Group
Social Reproduction
Wider Issue
Product details
- ISBN 9781859739143
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Aug 1998
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Recent decades have seen spectacular increases in the levels of divorce and separation across the Western world. This important development is having a radical impact on the conduct and nature of family relationships. This book offers an original investigation of these critical transformations through an ethnographic analysis of post-divorce family life in Britain and provides insightful answers to vexing questions, such as:- What cultural values and ideologies motivate and shape concerns over relationships when marriage ends?- Which relationships continue and why?- What cultural values underpin the financial transactions that take place or (more commonly) fail to take place after divorce?Drawing on extensive interviews with those most affected by divorce, the author argues that the positive sentiments traditionally associated with the notion of kinship are wholly inadequate when it comes to understanding divorce, but that kinship can provide an illuminating window through which to consider the breakdown of marital relations.This book represents a significant contribution to current debates over the changing form and expression of relationships in Western society in the late twentieth century.
Bob Simpson Senior Lecturer in Anthropology,University of Durham
