scholarly journals Feathered Nest/Gilded Cage: Parental Income and Leaving Home in the Transition to Adulthood

Demography ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 375 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Avery ◽  
Frances Goldscheider ◽  
Alden Speare Jr.
Keyword(s):  
Transition To Adulthood ◽  
Leaving Home ◽  
Parental Income

scholarly journals Intervening with Youth in the Transition from Care to Independent Living

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 8-13
Author(s):  
Varda Mann-Feder
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Emerging Adulthood ◽  
Transition To Adulthood ◽  
Independent Living ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Leaving Home

This article outlines recommendations for intervention with youth transitioning to independent living based on the results of the author’s own program of qualitative research, literature on the theory of Emerging Adulthood, and recent findings in relation to the experiences of youth leaving home to live on their own. The emphasis is on designing services that can more closely approximate the normative transition to adulthood.

scholarly journals Adolescent home-leaving and the transition to adulthood

2013 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 298-308 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thaddaeus Egondi ◽  
Caroline Kabiru ◽  
Donatien Beguy ◽  
Muindi Kanyiva ◽  
Richard Jessor
Keyword(s):  
Problem Behavior ◽  
Transition To Adulthood ◽  
Predictive Analysis ◽  
Individual Decision ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Leaving Home ◽  
Problem Behavior Theory ◽  
Home Leaving ◽  
Theory Framework ◽  
Important Marker

Home-leaving is considered an important marker of the transition to adulthood and is usually framed as an individual decision. We move beyond this limited assumption to examine a broader conceptualization that might better illuminate home-leaving among youth in impoverished circumstances. We adopt the Problem Behavior Theory-framework to investigate the association of home-leaving with behavioral and psychosocial variables and with other transitions. We use data on adolescents aged 14–22 years from a three-wave study conducted between 2007 and 2010. We used variable- and person-centered cross-sectional analyses, as well as predictive analysis of home-leaving by subsequent waves. Parental controls protection predicted home-leaving by subsequent waves. Overall, protective factors moderated the association of problem behavior involvement with leaving home in Nairobi’s slums.

Leaving Home for College and Gaining Independence

2002 ◽  
Vol 34 (6) ◽  
pp. 981-999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clara H Mulder ◽  
William A V Clark
Keyword(s):  
Regression Models ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
Event History ◽  
Income Dynamics ◽  
Economic Independence ◽  
Leaving Home ◽  
Parental Income ◽  
Logistic Regression Models ◽  
Returning Home ◽  
The Usa

As more and more young US adults attend college it has become an increasingly important filter in the process of becoming an independent household. Now for a large number of young adults living in the USA, living away at college is a first step in the process of gaining residential and economic independence. We analyze leaving home to go to college, the choice between returning home and becoming independent after living away at college, and the influence of experience with living away at college on becoming an independent household. We use data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) and multilevel event-history and logistic-regression models to show that the likelihood of leaving home for college is positively affected by the father's education and the parental income. Unlike in previous research, we find evidence for the ‘feathered-nest’ hypothesis, in that the likelihood of returning home increases with parental income.

Trajectories of perceived support from family, friends, and lovers in the transition to adulthood

2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (10) ◽  
pp. 1418-1438 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy L. Galambos ◽  
Shichen Fang ◽  
Rebecca M. Horne ◽  
Matthew D. Johnson ◽  
Harvey J. Krahn
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Transition To Adulthood ◽  
Growth Models ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Perceived Support ◽  
Leaving Home ◽  
Friend Support ◽  
Life Course Transitions ◽  
Levels Of Support ◽  
Over Time

Trajectories of perceived support from family, friends, and lovers were examined in 923 high school seniors surveyed across the transition to adulthood (ages 18, 19, 20, 22, and 25). Growth models revealed a cubic pattern of support from family members, which peaked at age 20, no change in friend support, and a linear decrease in lover support. Women reported higher levels of support than did men for all sources except fathers. Over time, friend and lover support decreased for women but increased for men. Both mother and father support were higher among young people who had left home, and cohabitation/marriage was associated with lower friend support and higher lover support. Support in close social relationships in the early 20s is dynamic; personal characteristics (e.g., gender) and life course transitions such as leaving home and marriage contribute to changing levels of perceived support.

Youth Development in Europe

2009 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 372-375 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katariina Salmela-Aro ◽  
Ingrid Schoon
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Relationship Quality ◽  
Youth Development ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Transition To Adulthood ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Integrative Framework ◽  
Reciprocal Interactions ◽  
The Family ◽  
Key Players

A series of six papers on “Youth Development in Europe: Transitions and Identities” has now been published in the European Psychologist throughout 2008 and 2009. The papers aim to make a conceptual contribution to the increasingly important area of productive youth development by focusing on variations and changes in the transition to adulthood and emerging identities. The papers address different aspects of an integrative framework for the study of reciprocal multiple person-environment interactions shaping the pathways to adulthood in the contexts of the family, the school, and social relationships with peers and significant others. Interactions between these key players are shaped by their embeddedness in varied neighborhoods and communities, institutional regulations, and social policies, which in turn are influenced by the wider sociohistorical and cultural context. Young people are active agents, and their development is shaped through reciprocal interactions with these contexts; thus, the developing individual both influences and is influenced by those contexts. Relationship quality and engagement in interactions appears to be a fruitful avenue for a better understanding of how young people adjust to and tackle development to productive adulthood.

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