The Road to Independence: Leaving Home in Western and Eastern Societies, 16Th-20th Centuries

by Frans Van Poppel (Editor), Mary Jo Maynes (Contributor)

The patterns whereby children leave the family home are heterogenous across cultures and have evidenced a significant amount of change across the decades. Van Poppel (Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute), Oris (U. de Li ge, Belgium), and Lee (Californian Institute of Technology, US)

450 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003