«Se marier pour aller jusqu'au bout ensemble ? » Ruptures conjugales et transmission des exploitations agricoles dans la lignée

Abstract

" Married once and for ail ?" The breakup of conjugal unions and the transmission of family farms in the lineage. Farmers who live in a couple tend to be married more often and to divorce less than members of other social groups. Based on statistical data from the survey Etude de l'histoire familiale (INSEE/INED 1999) as well as on long term ethnographic fieldwork carried out among wine-growing families in the area of Cognac, the author shows however that farmers and their female partners experiment the same transformations of conjugal relationships as do other social groups. Marriage is not systematic any more, the number of divorces bas risen and more generally farmers and their partners have to live with the always present possibility of breakup. The article analyses how the breakup of conjugal unions in farmers' families implies specific consequences, because of the presence of family businesses and the transmission of the farm in the lineage.

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