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About a third of all marriages end in a divorce. And non-married couples do not always live happily ever after either. What does science tell about the phenomenon of divorce? Are we so much happier when we are freed from the partner? And how do children experience a divorce (battle) of their parents? Utrecht researchers examine this issue from different angles.

Our experts

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  dr. Rianne van Dijk

  Email: r.vandijk@uu.nl

  Phone: 030 253 1196
• Family relationships after divorce
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  prof. dr. Catrin Finkenauer

  Email: c.finkenauer@uu.nl

  Phone: 06 18 509 811
• Family relationships and divorce (battles)
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  prof. dr. Anne-Rigt Poortman

  Email: a.poortman@uu.nl

  Phone: 030 253 4306
• Divorce, new types of relationships and legal aspects of partner relationships
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  prof. mr. Wendy Schrama

  Email: w.m.schrama@uu.nl

  Phone: 030 253 7193
• Legal aspects of and after divorce
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  dr. Inge van der Valk

  Email: i.e.vandervalk@uu.nl

  Phone: 030 253 4890
• Divorce and children
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  dr. Zoë Rejaän

  Email: z.rejaan@uu.nl
• Divorce and children

• News

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    Family sociologist Anne-Rigt Poortman receives VICI grant

    News

    26 February 2019

    Dr. Anne-Rigt Poortman is awarded a grant of 1,5 million euros by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).
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    Resilience in children after divorce

    Publication

    16 January 2019

    Are children barely troubled by a divorce or do they pay a serious psycho-social price? Reine van der Wal answers this question.
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    “We are interested both in divorces that were resolved harmoniously and in divorces with more conflict involved.”

    News

    2 January 2019

    Zoë Rejaän on ‘Where do I belong?’, an interdisciplinary Dynamics of Youth research project.
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    “Children of divorced parents are small city nomads”

    News

    11 December 2018

    Prof. dr. Irina van Aalst about 'Where do I belong? Children in multi-resident families: “Children of divorced parents are small city nomads”
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    “Relationships are work, and not always fun”

    News

    18 September 2018

    Numbers show that one in three married couples will have a divorce. Catrin Finkenauer, who researches relationships, youth and messy divorces, explains why.

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