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