Leaving Home - Softcover

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 033519284X ISBN 13: 9780335192847

Verlag: Open University Press, 1995

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"So for once the blurb on the jacket matches the content of the book, for it is indeed 'the first major study of leaving home to be published in Britain.' As the author of what could be described as a minor study of a smaller sample of young people leaving home, I can only endorse this opinion and recommend the book to teachers and students of sociology at all levels." - Times Educational Supplement "...this volume gives a useful and more focused overview of the issues facing young adults as they move away fromtheir childhood bases." - Adoption and Fostering "Leaving Home is a challenging and provocative text, which will be of value to practitioners, managers and academics alike." - Child and Family Social Work "...extremely useful." - Housing Studies "...a welcome and significant contribution to the youth policy literature." -Social Policy "...an impressive work based on a combination of survey data and in-depth research. It will provide stimulating reading for a wide variety of people from policy-makers and practitioners to researchersand adds greatly to our understanding of the phenomenon of leaving home, including homelessness." - Urban Studies

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Leaving Home is the first major study of leaving home to be published in book form in Britain. It combines a broad history of leaving home with an analysis of the relevant theory and up-to-date research in the area. It examines the processes of household formation in youth, and considers patterns of leaving home in historical context. These patterns are shown to increasingly involve returns to the parental home. Access to state and family support is investigated, and the implications of recent reductions in state support are discussed.

Leaving Home develops a framework for understanding transitions to adulthood which steers a course between commentators who suggest that young people are responsible for their own homelessness or joblessness, and those who argue that such problems are purely structural. Leaving Home argues that this polarisation leads to unhelpful stereotypes which need to be 'unpacked' if we are to understand the social problems affecting young people, and help them to make a successful transition to adulthood.

Written in a jargon free style, with clear illustrative diagrams and new survey and interview data, Leaving Home is important reading for students of sociology, social policy and social work, housing studies, youth and community work.

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• Verlag: Open University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• ISBN 10: 033519284X
• ISBN 13: 9780335192847
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192