Transitions into Independence: A Comparison of Cohorts Born since 1930 in The Netherlands

According to modernization theory, people will show greater variability over time in the order of making certain life transitions: getting a job, leaving the parental home, finding a partner, and becoming a parent. On the basis of hypotheses underlying generation theories - the relative scarcity hypothesis and the hypothesis of differential cohort socialization - more specific predictions can be made regarding the age at which various cohorts make a number of life transitions. Analysis of the life histories of 4098 Dutch people born since 1930 did not confirm the predictions of modernization t... Mehr ...