Negotiating the Life Course Stability and Change in Life Pathways /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Evans, Ann (Editor), Baxter, Janeen (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Life Course Research and Social Policies, 1
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Sociology.; Demography.; Families.; Families > Social aspects.; Social Sciences.; Sociology, general.; Family.

Pathways through the life course have changed considerably in recent decades.  Many of our assumptions about leaving home, starting new relationships and having children have been turned upside down. It is now almost as common to have children prior to marriage as afterwards, and certainly much more...