Subjects:

Family Law

Contents:

Part 1 Introduction: the Family Law Act 1996 in context. Part 2 Children and parents: in whose best interests? theorizing family life following parental separation or divorce

children and divorce - a private affair?

the wishes and feelings of the child

contact, conflict and risk. Part 3 Husbands and wives: from women's emancipation to sex war? heterosexuality and the politics of divorce

divorce - a psychodynamic perspective

experiences of divorce

divorce and domestic violence

dividing the family assets. Part 4 Conclusions: changing divorce.

In this book, the author claims that despite considerable comment in the press and in academia, by professionals and by politicians, about divorce reform and the post-divorce family, much has been left unsaid.;There are ""undercurrents"" of divorce which are not visible and not discussed because they do not fit into a dominant discursive framework for talk about divorce. This book aims to bring these undercurrents to the surface and, in that process, seeks to do two things: to explain how and why aspects of divorce, and the lives of those divorcing, have become marginalized in professional and political discussion; and to make visible the practical and legal effects of such exclusion.