YOUTH 2020 - The position of young people in Slovenia

Young people, family, and intergenerational mindsets  245 DANIJELA LAHE, TINA CUPAR, TOMAŽ DEŽELAN, AND NINA VOMBERGAR 7. YOUNG PEOPLE, FAMILY, AND INTERGENERATIONAL MINDSETS 7.1  TRANSITIONING TO ADULTHOOD In recent decades, young people’s life courses have been characterized by important changes in their transitions to adulthood. Since the 1990s, there has been a general trend of delayed transitions, such as from edu- cation to the labour market and full-time employment, fromdependence and co-residence with parents to independence and formation of their own (family) life, from teenage years and early twenties to late twenties or to adulthood. Additionally, attainment of certain transitions has also become less linear and less predictable than they used to be (Švab, 2001; Eurostat, 2015, Furlong, 2017). Thus nowadays young people frequently attain specific transitions in different and less “traditional” order (mean- ing that the order is not always in the direction of finishing education first, then getting a job, getting married, and only then forming a fami- ly), and transitions are also less often “completely finished” (it is more frequent to return to living with parents or to an educational process in later years; Mandič, 2008; Buchmann and Kriesi, 2011). With regards to family life organization, some researchers understand these changes as a process of de-standardisation of family life-courses (Beck, 1992; Brück- ner and Mayer, 2005; Shanahan, 2000; Ule, 2014); however, it must be noted that these trends might vary between different European coun- tries (Widmer and Ritschard, 2009; Bürgin et al., 2014; Nico, 2014). The last national youth research in Slovenia ( Mladina 2010 ) consistently confirmed this trend of delayingmost youth transitions to adulthood for