This book compares two large samples of young people, drawn from the National Child Development Study (children born in 1958) and from the 1970 Cohort Study (those born in 1970). It makes comparisons between the circumstances of young people in 1983 and 1995, when the respective sample groups reached 25 years of age.
The conclusions reached are striking, pointing not only to young people's "changing routes to independence", but also to the polarisation of life chances between those who are doing reasonably well and those facing marginalisation and exclusion. Such polarisation was evident in labour market and family circumstances. The authors note the relationships between the two at particular moments in life and during life.
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