LEADER 07144nam 22007814a 450 001 9910782457703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-96644-4 010 $a9786611966447 010 $a0-226-74892-8 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226748924 035 $a(CKB)1000000000578276 035 $a(EBL)408391 035 $a(OCoLC)476228823 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000214731 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11186561 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000214731 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10177286 035 $a(PQKB)10709094 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000119090 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC408391 035 $a(DE-B1597)525833 035 $a(OCoLC)1135576479 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226748924 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL408391 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10265879 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL196644 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000578276 100 $a20040610d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aOn the frontier of adulthood$b[electronic resource] $etheory, research, and public policy /$fRichard A. Settersten, Jr., Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr., and Rube?n G. Rumbaut, editors 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$dc2005 215 $a1 online resource (608 p.) 225 1 $aJohn D. and Catherine T. Macarthur Foundation series on mental health and development. Research Network on Transitions to Adulthood and Public Policy 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-74889-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAbout the Editors and Contributors --$tMacArthur Research Network on Transitions to Adulthood and Public Policy --$tAcknowledgments --$tChapter 1 On the Frontier of Adulthood: Emerging Themes and New Directions --$tChapter 2. The Transition to Adulthood during the Twentieth Century: Race, Nativity, and Gender --$tChapter 3. American Women's Transition to Adulthood in Comparative Perspective --$tChapter 4. Historical Roots of Family Diversity: Marital and Childbearing Trajectories of American Women --$tChapter 5. Historical Trends in Patterns of Time Use among Young Adults in Developed Countries --$tChapter 6. Generation Gaps in Attitudes and Values from the 1970's to the 1990's --$tChapter 7. Subjective Age Identity and the Transition to Adulthood: When Do Adolescents Become Adults? --$tChapter 8. Sequences of Early Adult Transitions: A Look at Variability and Consequences --$tChapter 9. Off to a Good Start? Postsecondary Education and Early Adult Life --$tChapter 10. Six Paths to Adulthood: Fast Starters, Parents without Careers, Educated Partners, Educated Singles, Working Singles, and Slow Starters --$tChapter 11. Is It Getting Harder to Get Ahead? Economic Attainment in Early Adulthood for Two Cohorts --$tChapter 12. Material Assistance from Families during the Transition to Adulthood --$tChapter 13. Early Adult Transitions and Their Relation to Well-Being and Substance Use --$tChapter 14. The Ever-Winding Path: Ethnic and Racial Diversity in the Transition to Adulthood --$tChapter 15. The Transition to Adulthood for Youth Leaving Public Systems: Challenges to Policies and Research --$tChapter 16. Social Policy and the Transition to Adulthood: Toward Stronger Institutions and Individual Capacities --$tIndex 330 $aOn 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 adulthood-leaving home, finishing school, getting a job, getting married, and having children-and 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. "This book is the most thorough, wide-reaching, and insightful analysis of the new life stage of early adulthood."-Andrew Cherlin, Johns Hopkins University "From West to East, young people today enter adulthood in widely diverse ways that affect their life chances. This book provides a rich portrait of this journey-an essential font of knowledge for all who care about the younger generation."-Glen H. Elder Jr., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "On the Frontier of Adulthood adds considerably to our knowledge about the transition from adolescence to adulthood. . . . It will indeed be the definitive resource for researchers for years to come. Anyone working in the area-whether in demography, sociology, economics, or developmental psychology-will wish to make use of what is gathered here."-John Modell, Brown University "This is a must-read for scholars and policymakers who are concerned with the future of today's youth and will become a touchpoint for an emerging field of inquiry focused on adult transitions."-Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Columbia University 410 0$aJohn D. and Catherine T. 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