A RAND study provides strong new evidence that living away from home before marriage alters young adults’ attitudes, expectations, and plans, equips them with new social and domestic skills, and broadens their range of experiences and influences.
Examines expectations about premarital residential independence among young adults and is based on data from a survey of the high school class of 1980.
Using data from a recent longitudinal study of a single high school graduating class, the authors examine the relationship between parenthood and sex role attitudes and aspirations.
Young adults in recent cohorts have been leaving the parental home earlier and marrying later now than they did several decades ago, resulting in an increased period of independent living.
... assesses the effects of the first birth on the career orientation and job characteristics of young adult males and females, using data from the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972.
Examines how the birth of the first child affects the stability of marriages over the short run; it uses data from the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972.
Analyzes several samples of young males arrested for either armed robbery or residential burglary in three sites: Los Angeles County, California; Clark County (Las Vegas), Nevada; and King County (Seattle), Washington.
