6. Home-leaving patterns in historic Poland-Lithuania

Social trends such as delayed or forfeited family formation, postponed home leaving and allegedly infantilising leisure practices are often marshalled in support of a long standing social scientific as well as popular assumption: successive generations take longer to reach adulthood. This article argues that this ‘delayed adulthood thesis’ is based on an anachronistic model of adulthood and goes on to suggest an alternative conception. Some original interview material with individuals in their late twenties as well as the notion of social recognition are utilized in this process. It is suggested that the very practices that serve as evidence for the delayed adulthood thesis are in fact productive of new, emerging modalities of adulthood that are commensurate with changed and changing social realities.

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Max in Purgatory

Max Eastman ◽

10.12987/yale/9780300222562.003.0010 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Christoph Irmscher

Keyword(s):

Martha's Vineyard ◽

National Review ◽

Martha’S Vineyard ◽

Home Leaving ◽

Mutual Friend ◽

Alfred Kinsey

Infatuated with his secretary Florence Norton, Eastman completes the first volume of his tell-all autobiography, Enjoyment of Living, a testament to his prodigious erotic energies that leads critics to compare him with sexologist Alfred Kinsey. Trips for Reader’s Digest lead him to Italy, Greece, Norway, and Ireland. Now a vocal anticommunist, Max condemns McCarthy but not the idea behind McCarthyism and joins the editorial board of William Buckley’s National Review. After being diagnosed with cancer, Eliena Krylenko Eastman dies on October 9, 1956, at their Martha’s Vineyard home, leaving Max “in the shadows,” as a mutual friend observed.

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Age norms, family relationships, and home leaving in Italy

Demographic Research ◽

10.4054/demres.2017.36.9 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 36 ◽

pp. 281-306 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Marco Tosi

Keyword(s):

Family Relationships ◽

Age Norms ◽

Home Leaving

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Adolescent home-leaving and the transition to adulthood

International Journal of Behavioral Development ◽

10.1177/0165025413479299 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 37 (4) ◽

pp. 298-308 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

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.

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The Idiot ◽

10.1093/owc/9780199536399.003.0023 ◽

2008 ◽

Author(s):

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Keyword(s):

Home Leaving ◽

At Home

It was already late, almost half-past two, and the prince failed to catch General Yepanchin at home. Leaving his card, he resolved to go to The Scales hotel and ask for Kolya—and leave him a note if he wasn’t there. At the hotel he...

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