ABSTRACT
Young people move through different phases of financial dependence according to the institutions they depend upon. Young people move from a state of primary dependence on the parents to a state of mixed dependencies on family, market, and Welfare State to a state of dependence on the market and the state, which is the normal status of an adult person in a Welfare State. This movement through different states of social status and sources of financial dependence will be labelled the social rights career, which parallels educational, employment, and housing careers. This chapter describes the mechanisms through which the specific institutionalisation of social rights affects differences in the financial and social dependence of young people on their parents. It concentrates on the period of 1985 to 1992, because these are the years during which the young people analysed in this work were likely to leave home.
