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Although the ideal of companionate marriage has gradually been established in Hong Kong, demographic trends from the 1980s reflect greater marital and family instability. In the years to come, adult fulfilment is likely to be found in various ways: through marriage, divorce, remarriage, or the single state. Each of these has its own potentials, tensions, and prospects for growth and development. Each offers different though viable life styles through which people can develop in adulthood. These trends call for a rethinking of marriage and of our expectation that marriage and the family bond will continue to serve as the relational context of adult living. This collection on marital work offers the means to rethink marriage by examining the ways husbands and wives cope with the demands and dilemmas of their relationship, from diverse parenting, forgiveness, coping with childhood abuse, infidelity, disenchantment and distancing, to uncoupling in divorce, and re-coupling in remarriage. Each chapter addresses aspects of these issues, with a focus on the recovery, reinvention and reconstruction of the self to meet the many challenges arising from the relationship and from life circumsta

Who reads Marriage, divorce, and remarriage : professional practice in the Hong Kong cultural context?

Author

Katherine P. H. Young & Anita Y. L. Fok

Publisher

Hong Kong University Press ; Eurospan [distributor

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9789882202214

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Social Science, Gender Studies

Rating

5 / 5 (1 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14