The Boomerang Age: Transitions to Adulthood in Families

* The Boomerang Age was named an Outstanding Academic Title of 2007 by Choice Magazine. Domestic changes are taking place in the lives of young adults in Western industrialized societies. Today's young people often experience less permanency and more movement in a variety of family-related roles, statuses, and living arrangements. Among the most prominent changes is the phenomenon of "boomerang kids," young adults returning to the parental home after their initial entrance into the adult world. The Boomerang Age, explores the implications of this development in a changing sociocultural, economic, and demographic landscape. Mitchell begins by addressing definitional, conceptual, and measurement issues relevant to the "boomerang age." She then places the issues in historical perspective by considering trends in family organization--the nuclear family, marriage and divorce rates and fertility--over the past hundred years with emphasis on the 1950s family as a cultural benchmark. The book then turns to the contemporary trajectory of home leaving and returning, analyzing the "launch" and return phases with regard to economic factors, regional differences, and racial and ethnic backgrounds. Mitchell then explores the more personal dimensions of how a return to the family is complicated by partnership (marriage, divorce, cohabitation, homosexuality) and parenthood among young couples. Moving outside the home, she looks at how public issues such as globalization, the decline of the welfare state, and various forms of social inequality affect the circumstances of young adulthood. Here Mitchell offers specific social policy recommendations pertaining to education, housing and dependency issues, childcare, and gender and racial equality. The book concludes by critically evaluating the advantages and drawbacks of two possible future scenarios: increased individualization in the pursuit of social goals, or a more or less permanent return to the traditional, extended family.

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Children's Books

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The Wizard of Sound a Story about Thomas Edison

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Wizard of Sound: A Story About Thomas Edison

Biographies

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The Boomerang Age: Transitions to Adulthood in Families

The Practical Revolutionaries: A New Interpretation of the French Anarchosyndicalists (Contributions to the Study of World History)

Cornstalks and Cannonballs

The Wizard of Sound a Story about Thomas Edison

Wizard of Sound: A Story About Thomas Edison

We'll Race You, Henry: A Story About Henry Ford

Maker of Machines: A Story About Eli Whitney (Creative Minds Biographies)

Down Buttermilk Lane

Down Buttermilk Lane

Red Bird