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Early Adulthood in a Family Context

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  • In depth coverage of this critical life period
  • Covers socioeconomic gender and race issues
  • Highlights new theoretical, methodological, and measurement concepts
  • Features high profile contributors
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: National Symposium on Family Issues (NSFI, volume 2)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. The Contemporary Context of Young Adulthood

  2. Parent-Child Relationships and Successful Transitions

  3. Parent-child relationships that facilitate successful transitions

  4. Romantic and Sexual Relationships

  5. Romantic and sexual relationships

  6. Family Contexts and Timing of Fertility

  7. Family contexts and timing of fertility

  8. The Study of Young Adulthood

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About this book

Early Adulthood in a Family Context, based on the 18th annual National Symposium on Family Issues, emphasizes the importance of both the family of origin and new and highly variable types of family formation experiences that occur in early adulthood. This volume showcases new theoretical, methodological, and measurement insights in hopes of advancing understanding of the influence of the family of origin on young adults' lives. Both family resources and constraints with respect to economic, social, and human capital are considered.

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“The book is based on papers presented at the 18th Annual Symposium on Family Issues in October 2011. … each part of the book is a coherent piece and with each chapter the reader gets a wider or more detailed picture of the discussed topic. … book offers valuable insight into how adolescents become adults and into how family is crucial in this process. … may inform and enlighten our thinking not only about youth transition to adulthood, but also about fertility and family dynamics.” (Monika Mynarska, European Journal of Population, Vol. 28, 2012)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Sociology, Justice, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA

    Alan Booth

  • Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, USA

    Susan L. Brown

  • Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA

    Nancy S. Landale

  • , Departments of Sociology and Demography, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, USA

    Wendy D. Manning

  • The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA

    Susan M. McHale

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Early Adulthood in a Family Context

  • Editors: Alan Booth, Susan L. Brown, Nancy S. Landale, Wendy D. Manning, Susan M. McHale

  • Series Title: National Symposium on Family Issues

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1436-0

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Behavioral Science, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-1435-3Published: 10 December 2011

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-8595-8Published: 03 March 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-1436-0Published: 11 December 2011

  • Series ISSN: 2192-9157

  • Series E-ISSN: 2192-9165

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 268

  • Topics: Family, Clinical Psychology, Sociology, general

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