ABSTRACT
While divorce as a family transition implicates multiple significant changes, there is also diversity in the experiences of divorce. The context in which divorce occurs and its management plays a role on the subsequent impact and coping of divorce for family members. For example, as explored, the impact of divorce on children in high conflict marriages may in fact be a positive development. Similarly, contexts may also be able to support children appropriately and foster their resilience to help better manage the family transition without negative outcomes. This context, impact and coping may differ for British-Indians due to the particular socio-cultural, historical and structural spaces that they occupy in the UK. Thus while the experiences of divorce may be similar to the experiences of the impact of divorce recorded in mainstream western communities, the context within which divorce as a family transformation occurs in the British-Indian community is different. This is not to indicate that divorce events and processes are unique to British-Indians, but rather that these occur within particular ethnic context shaped by their histories of immigration, acculturation and continuation of tradition, survival, identity and adaptation in a larger host society.
