Leaving Home Before Marriage: Ethnicity, Familism, and Generational Relationships

by Frances K. Goldscheider and Calvin Goldscheider

Book Overview

Traditionally, children have lived in their parents' homes until they were married and ready to start their own families. Leaving Home before Marriage explores a step that young American adults are increasingly taking--setting up a household alone or with housemates. Frances K. Goldscheider and Calvin Goldscheider analyze this profound change as it figures in the plans of young people and their parents and in the decisions they eventually make...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299138046
• ISBN13: 9780299138042
• Release Date: June 1993
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"