Leaving Home? Global Education Strategies

Spatial Distances after Leaving Home

This research used geocoded data from 10 waves (2000 – 2009) of the German Socio-economic Panel Study to investigate the spatial distances of young adults’ initial move-outs (N = 1,986). Linear regression models predicted moving distances by factors at individual, family, household, and community level. Overall, home leavers moved across strikingly small distances with a median value of less th...

Leaving School: Finding Education

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Leaving home, and the adolescent family therapist.

Serious psychiatric problems of adolescence can be viewed as breakdowns at the prospect of adulthood, when "leaving home" begins to have real meaning, wherever the young person actually lives. Most young people seem to cope well enough with this process, but crises develop in those families where the growing child senses that it is too soon to grow up and leave, in case the parents could not su...

Parenthood and Leaving Home in Young Adulthood.

With increases in nonmarital fertility, the sequencing of transitions in early adulthood has become even more complex. Once the primary transition out of the parental home, marriage was first replaced by nonfamily living and cohabitation; more recently, many young adults have become parents before entering a coresidential union. Studies of leaving home, however, have not examined the role of ea...

Tackling Early Leaving from Education and Training in Europe: Strategies, Policies and Measures