What is it like to be a teenager today? How do parents and teenagers experience their roles and responsiblities? And how does the problem of health - a major cultural goal of the twentieth century - figure in the perspective and priorties of young people and their parentsThis book seeks to answer these questions in a unique study of over 800 16-year-olds. Taking family life as the focus, the book explores a critical moment in teenagers and parents lives with respect to the transition to adulthood, a point a which young people and parents take important decisions about the future, especially concerning education, training and the labour market.
- ISBN10 0335230873
- ISBN13 9780335230877
- Publish Date 1 February 1994
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Open University Press
- Format eBook
- Language English