TY - JOUR

T1 - Home Dissolution

T2 - What Happens After Separation?

A1 - Gram-Hanssen,Kirsten

A1 - Bech-Danielsen,Claus

AU - Gram-Hanssen,Kirsten

AU - Bech-Danielsen,Claus

PB - Routledge

PY - 2008///

Y1 - 2008///

N2 - Building a home and creating a family are highly inter­connec­ted processes. So what happens with the home when people separate or divorce? In this paper we address this question both from a quantitative and a qualitative approach. Based on an extensive database with socio-economic background data of 42,000 separated Danish couples in 2002, we follow the housing careers of both partners, to see how the housing situation of different types of people was affected by the separation. In the qualitative approach, nine interviews with couples who have parted shed light on the emotions and practical problems of dissolving a home. How to decide who should stay, who should move and how was it to stay alone in or to leave the matrimonial home?

AB - Building a home and creating a family are highly inter­connec­ted processes. So what happens with the home when people separate or divorce? In this paper we address this question both from a quantitative and a qualitative approach. Based on an extensive database with socio-economic background data of 42,000 separated Danish couples in 2002, we follow the housing careers of both partners, to see how the housing situation of different types of people was affected by the separation. In the qualitative approach, nine interviews with couples who have parted shed light on the emotions and practical problems of dissolving a home. How to decide who should stay, who should move and how was it to stay alone in or to leave the matrimonial home?

KW - skilsmisser, familieforhold

KW - separation

KW - flytning

KW - divorces

KW - separation

KW - moving

KW - meaning of home

U2 - 10.1080/02673030802020635

JO - Housing Studies

JF - Housing Studies

SN - 0267-3037

IS - 3

VL - 23

SP - 507

EP - 522

ER -