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Journal Issue: Transition to Adulthood Volume 20 Number 1 Spring 2010

Endnotes

1. William S. Aquilino, "Two Views of One Relationship: Comparing Parents’ and Young Adult Children’s Reports of the Quality of Intergenerational Relations," Journal of Marriage and the Family 61 (1999): 858–70; Frances K. Goldscheider and Calvin Goldscheider, "The Effects of Childhood Family Structure on Leaving and Returning Home," Journal of Marriage and the Family 60 (1998):745–56; Frances K. Goldscheider and Linda J. Waite, New Families? No Families? The Transformation of the American Home (University of California Press, 1991); Michael J. Rosenfeld, The Age of Independence: Interracial Unions, Same-Sex Unions, and the Changing American Family (Harvard University Press, 2007); Michael Shanahan, "Pathways to Adulthood in Changing Societies: Variability and Mechanisms in Life Course Perspective," Annual Review of Sociology 26 (2000): 667–92.
2. MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Transitions to Adulthood, www.transad.pop.upenn.edu.
3. Richard A. Settersten, Frank F. Furstenberg Jr., and Rubén G. Rumbaut, eds., On the Frontier of Adulthood: Theory, Research, and Public Policy (University of Chicago Press, 2005).

Contents
• Introduction
• Understanding the New Schedule
• How Well Do Traditional Supports Work?
• The Changing Nature of Young Adulthood
• Key Policy Issues
• Endnotes