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The changing transition to adulthood : leaving and returning home /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Goldscheider, Frances K.
Other Authors: Goldscheider, Calvin
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, [1999]
Series:Understanding families ; v. 17.
Subjects:
Young adults > United States > Psychology.
Adult children > United States > Psychology.
Families > United States.
Home > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Leaving and returning home in 20th century America
  • Out of the nest
  • Back to the nest
  • Runaways and stay-at-homes
  • The changing role of regional communities
  • Who left whom? The effects of childhood family structure
  • Sons and daughters
  • Leaving and returning to the feathered nest
  • The shifting ethnic mosaic
  • Religious transformation and family values
  • What is new in nest-leaving in 20th century America.