From the 1960s, rising divorce rates forced a re-thinking of family dynamics beyond the nuclear. Traditionally, experts and the public had presumed that children from ‘broken homes’ typically drifted into juvenile delinquency and crime. Children of divorce were blamed for a plethora of social problems. The increasingly common nature of divorce meant that this model was no longer sustainable. Post-war children of divorce were more likely to be framed as ‘emotionally vulnerable’ and studied in more nuanced ways, not least because it seemed increasingly obvious that not all affected children grew up delinquent. However, a new consensus emerged that problems could only be avoided if parents created appropriate emotional conditions while separating and divorcing, and if parents and children openly communicated their feelings throughout the process. Children themselves were actively encouraged, through a new genre of divorce manuals often aimed at them, to express their emotions with parents and friends. Using Britain as a case study, this article argues that emotions became central to discussion of divorce in the post-war period, placing onuses on breaking down families to create a positive emotional space for affected children.

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结束“破碎家庭的崇拜”：离婚、孩子和分离的英国家庭不断变化的情绪动态，c。1945–90

从 1960 年代开始，不断上升的离婚率迫使人们重新思考核心之外的家庭动态。传统上，专家和公众认为“破碎家庭”的孩子通常会陷入少年犯罪和犯罪。离婚的孩子被指责为过多的社会问题。离婚日益普遍的性质意味着这种模式不再可持续。战后离婚的孩子更有可能被定性为“情感脆弱”，并以更细致入微的方式进行研究，尤其是因为越来越明显的是，并非所有受影响的孩子都长大后有犯罪行为。然而，一个新的共识出现了，只有父母在分居和离婚时创造适当的情绪条件，并且父母和孩子在整个过程中公开表达他们的感受，才能避免问题。孩子们自己被积极鼓励，通过一种新类型的离婚手册，通常针对他们，向父母和朋友表达他们的情感。本文以英国为案例研究，认为情绪成为战后讨论离婚的核心，强调打破家庭，为受影响的孩子创造积极的情绪空间。