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Title: Material Assistance from Families during the Transition to Adulthood

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Publication Year: 2005

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Abstract: On the Frontier of Adulthood reveals a startling new fact: adulthood no longer begins when adolescence ends. A lengthy period before adulthood, often spanning the twenties and even extending into the thirties, is now devoted to further education, job exploration, experimentation in romantic relationships, and personal development. Pathways into and through adulthood have become much less linear and predictable, and these changes carry tremendous social and cultural significance, especially as institutions and policies aimed at supporting young adults have not kept pace with these changes.This volume considers the nature and consequences of changes in early adulthood by drawing upon a wide variety of historical and contemporary data from the United States, Canada, and Western Europe. Especially dramatic shifts have occurred in the conventional markers of adulthoodleaving home, finishing school, getting a job, getting married, and having childrenand in how these experiences are configured as a set. These accounts reveal how the process of becoming an adult has changed over the past century, the challenges faced by young people today, and what societies can do to smooth the transition to adulthood.

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Authors: Schoeni, Robert F.; Ross, Karen E.

Editors: Richard A. Settersten, Frank F. Furstenberg RubG.Rumbaut

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Volume Title: On the Frontier of Adulthood

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA, IPUMS CPS

Topics: Aging and Retirement, Education, Family and Marriage, Housing and Segregation, Labor Force and Occupational Structure

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