Young People Leaving Home in Australia: The trend towards independence

About why they leave, how old they are when they leave, where they go, who they live with, whether or not they return and why they return.

Homelessness still a problem

Self-determination: Helping Aboriginal families to realise the ideal

Enduring values

Adulthood: The time you get serious about the rest of your life

This articles notes that both the age and status markers by which we judged adulthood in the past are no longer clear cut indicators, and discusses the 1990 Becoming Adult Study, which asked 138 23-year-olds what adulthood meant to them.