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Separation and Divorce: Effect on Family Structures and Life Conditions
Author(s) -
De Rose Alessandra
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
labour
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.403
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1467-9914
pISSN - 1121-7081
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9914.00128
Subject(s) - marital separation , order (exchange) , family life , focus (optics) , point (geometry) , psychology , demographic economics , economics , developmental psychology , socioeconomics , mathematics , physics , geometry , finance , optics
The aim of this paper is to supply some basic data on separations and divorces in Italy in order to evaluate their impact on the family system both from a quantitative and qualitative point of view. The focus is on the role played by marital disruption in the observed recent increase in the number of ‘new families’ and its effects on the life conditions and economic well‐being of the women and children involved.