ArticlePopulation and development review2013
Family Instability and Pathways to Adulthood in Urban South Africa.
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- Cross-cultural evidence does not support universal acceleration of puberty in father-absent households.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2019Review
- Age at migration, family instability, and timing of sexual onset.Social science research · 2017Article
- Premarital Births and Union Formation in Rural South Africa.International perspectives on sexual and reproductive health · 2016Article
- Instability in Parent-Child Coresidence and Adolescent Development in Urban South Africa.Studies in family planning · 2016Article
- Household structure vs. composition: Understanding gendered effects on educational progress in rural South Africa.Demographic researchArticle
- Measuring extended families over time in informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya: Retention and data consistency in a two-round survey.Demographic researchArticle
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Abstract
Social, political, epidemiological, and economic forces have produced family instability during childhood for many young people transitioning to adulthood in South Africa. This study identifies pathways to adulthood for youth in Cape Town that capture the timing and sequencing of role transitions across the life domains of school, work, and family formation. It then uses these pathways to investigate the relationship between childhood family instability and the way young people's lives unfold during the transition to adulthood. Results indicate that changes in co-residence with parents are associated with following less advantageous pathways into adulthood, independent of particular family structure or orphan status. Overall, the findings suggest that family instability influences not only single transitions for youth, but also combinations of transitions. They also indicate the value of a multi-dimensional conceptualization of the transition to adulthood in empirical work.
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