Children and divorce in the light of salutogenesis--promoting child health in the face of family breakdown

Over past decades there has been an increase in divores or familybreakdown all over the world. Officially, in Europe, at least5.5 million women, children and men annually face the loss oftheir intimate relationships, discounting other types of separationsand unofficial marnages. In order to be able to manage the situationthere it a need to analyse and understand the family-breakdownprocess, and its health consequences. For public health workersthis situation should encourage us to use the tools availablefor a salutbgenic and health promotive approach, as recommendedin the new directions of the WHO Health for All movement. Theultimate aim is to create healthy social settings for the cominggenerations, our children.