The changing transition to adulthood
Subtitle: leaving and returning home
By: Frances Goldscheider, Calvin Goldscheider
Contributors: Goldscheider, Calvin
Series: Understanding families -- v. 17
Publisher: Sage Publications
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
Subjects: Young adults -- United States -- Psychology; Adult children -- United States -- Psychology; Family -- United States; Home -- United States
Description: "Using data from National Survey of Families and Households, Frances Goldscheider and Calvin Goldscheider investigate how gender, ethnicity, religion, economic class, and region influence the transition to adulthood. Their analysis also ties in the importance of the following social factors: major revolutions in gender patterns, changes in race relations, ethnic assimilation, regional redistribution patterns, the emergence of a middle class."--BOOK JACKET.

"In addition to evaluating the process of residential independence, this book also examines the patterns of young adults who return to the parental home. Scholars in family studies, sociology of the family, human relations, social psychology, and gender studies will find this study empirically rich and useful."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-245) and index
Table of contents: title: Leaving and returning home in 20th century America; title: Out of the nest; title: Back to the nest; title: Runaways and stay-at-homes; title: The changing role of regional communities; title: Who left whom? The effects of childhood family structure; title: Sons and daughters; title: Leaving and returning to the feathered nest; title: The shifting ethnic mosaic; title: Religious transformation and family values; title: What is new in nest-leaving in 20th century America