Divorce, Families and Emotion Work 'Only Death Will Make Us Part' /

• Main Author: Moore, Elena (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
• Series: Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Family and Intimate Life
• Subjects: Psychology.; Social policy.; Emotions.; Emotion.; Children, Youth and Family Policy.

This book focuses on parental commitment to family life after divorce, in contrast to its common perception as an irrevocable breaking up of the family unit, which is often perpetuated by representations from popular culture and the media. In the first detailed review of emotions and emotion work un...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Changing families and regulating change in family life
• 3. Understanding family change
• 4. Egalitarians, guilt and shame
• 5. Dependents: Living between fear and freedom
• 6. Deserted wives, excluded fathers and everyday unhappiness
• 7. Conflicted couples, enduring conflict and getting even
• 8. Divorce and time
• 9. Connected lives.