ABSTRACT
The questions we have sought to address in this study are many and varied. All are concerned with young people’s images of the future and their pathways to adulthood. Specific issues addressed include young people’s expectations of employment and parenthood, gendered views about combining employment and parenthood and how they think about the sources of support available to them. Each chapter draws upon specific bodies of theory. In this chapter we will discuss some of these in relation to a life-course perspective, which serves as an overarching frame of theoretical reference.
