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On the Frontier of Adulthood (Paperback)
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On the Frontier of Adulthood (Paperback)
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"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.
In "On the Frontier of Adulthood," Richard A. Settersten Jr., Frank
F. Furstenberg Jr., Ruben G. Rumbaut, and a team of distinguished
contributors consider the nature and consequences of changes in
early adulthood by drawing on 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, what the challenges faced by young people today are, and
what societies can do to smooth the transition from adolescence to
adulthood.
A dramatic summation of how the structure of early adult life has
changed in the last century, "On the Frontier of Adulthood" will be
viewed as the definitive source on the subject for years to come.
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