ABSTRACT
In many respects both parents and teenagers saw the post-school year as a constructive time during which the young person made progress towards greater independence both in attitude of mind and in actual self-help skills. The first area to be considered was the development of personal independence and maturity. Another general area of potential change was in the social lives of the young people, including their peer relationships, and the use they made of their leisure time. The third area to be considered was whether or not there were detectable changes in the young people’s present situation and aspirations with respect to relationships with the opposite sex and their hopes and expectations about marriage and children. Some of the school-based clubs do allow former members to attend after leaving school, but since they tend to be run only in term-time, this virtually excludes the young people who leave school for residential college.
