Practice question · Put in order
Arrange the steps of the classic post-war standardised transition to adulthood, in the order it was expected to occur.
- Leave the parental home
- Form a co-residential partnership
- Have a first child
- Enter stable employment
- Complete full-time education
Hints
- The sequence is the one that de-standardisation has disrupted.
- Employment came before leaving home, and partnership before children.
Show the answer
- Complete full-time education
- Enter stable employment
- Leave the parental home
- Form a co-residential partnership
- Have a first child
Why
The sequence is worth learning because every element of it is now routinely reordered, repeated or reversed: people return home after leaving, partner before stable employment, have children before marrying, and re-enter education mid-career. De-standardisation does not mean the transitions vanished; it means their order and timing stopped being predictable from one another.
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