[Commentaries]: Couples who Separate: Both a Private and a Public Matter

When a couple separates, the impact on the expenditure and income of the individuals involved is considerable. How should the risk of that separation be covered? This stimulating way of seeing things reflects a change in mentalities concerning separations. Divorce and other forms of separation have...

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Published in:Population (English ed. : 2002) 2016-07, Vol.71 (3), p.479-484
Main Authors: Fragonard, Bertrand, Gonzalez, Lucie, Marc, Céline
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Children
Couples
Decisions
Discussion of the article: Covering the Coasts of Divorce
Divorce
Economic sociology
Households
Income
Law
Marital disruption
Parents & parenting
Sociological research
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Summary:When a couple separates, the impact on the expenditure and income of the individuals involved is considerable. How should the risk of that separation be covered? This stimulating way of seeing things reflects a change in mentalities concerning separations. Divorce and other forms of separation have become commonplace, and this trend has been accompanied by major changes in civil law, with the divorce reforms of 1975 and 2004 and the acts of 1970, 1993 and 2002 on parental authority. The object of the decisions handed down by family judges has thus shifted from the search for the cause of and "responsibility" ("fault") for the separation to the question of how to sort out the consequences and organize the lives of individuals - parents and children - in the aftermath. This change in viewpoint is also to be found in sociological and economic research (Bonnet et al., 2015; Lambert, 2009). Two ways of protecting against the negative financial consequences of separation can be envisaged: either leaving households to handle the separation as they see fit, or promoting public intervention.
ISSN:1634-2941
1958-9190