At the individual level, divorces are life-altering events and cause individuals to face new economic, social, and emotional challenges. At the same time, divorces, and union dissolutions more generally, are complex social phenomena that play out over extended periods, includes multiple distinct actors, and often are governed by complex legal categorisations.
Fallesen draws upon international research and several completed and ongoing quantitative research projects to trace the link between divorce and inequality in Europe and elsewhere across three interlinked dimensions: formal and informal inequality in access to divorce, socioeconomic inequality in divorce risk, and socioeconomic inequality as a consequence of divorce.