A new social contract: Changing social and legal frameworks for young Australians

A report to the National Youth Affairs Research Scheme in 2000 by Ed Carson, Paul Fitzgerald and Suzanne Roche

This report is the property of the National Youth Affairs Research Scheme.

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It is generally expected that, at some point between the ages of 12 and 25, young people undergo a transition from economic and social dependence to independence. This research concerns the legal and social structures young people must negotiate as they grow up, the impact of those structures on the transition to adulthood and the extent to which the transition is becoming increasingly problematic for some groups of young people.

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