ABSTRACT
Children’s reactions to parental divorce or separation are here studied along the continuum from ‘divorce as misery’ to ‘divorce as problem-solving’. The text builds on selected material from research on divorced fathers and their children in the mid-1990s, carried out in Göteborg, Sweden, by Berg and Johansson (1999). It concerns the emotional wrestling performed by fathers and their children during and after the divorce process.We used semi-structured interviews, and conversations and narratives were encouraged.1 In this chapter attention is given to the children’s stories, with few comments from their fathers.
