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Script of Performance recorded live by B.B.C. Radio at The Arboretum, Lincoln on 26th July, 2014. The promenade performance featured The Band of The Royal Anglian Regiment, R.A.F. College Cranwell Military Wives Choir, Scunthorpe and District Pipe Band and a cast of professional and student actors performing the story of the Beechey family and their experience of sending eight brothers to war, of whom only three survived.

In the past, the tasks of establishing psychological and practical independence were linked in time. Nowadays, these transitions are no longer successively manageable sequences; rather, they are characterized by fluctuations, discontinuities, and reversals. In this review, research findings on factors contributing to the diversity in emerging adults' leaving home patterns (including early leaving, late leaving, or continued residence in the parents' home) are summarized. These findings show that although culture, gender, social class, and education shape leaving home patterns, individual factors (e.g., emerging adults' attachment representations or their progress in the domains of love and work), and parenting strategies that essentially keep the child emotionally and physically in close proximity are also influential. The review reveals that leaving home is an important developmental task for both emerging adult children and their parents and illustrates how linked their lives are.

This article presents the results of a qualitative study that examined first person accounts of the process of leaving home in Emerging Adulthood. Thirty university students aged 21 to 26, who attended a large commuter school in a Canadian city, were interviewed individually. Sixteen had already left home to live on their own, while fourteen lived with their families but anticipated leaving home. What emerged was a model of home leaving as a gradual process, which spanned months or years and represented a significant transition. Adaptation was either facilitated or impeded by external supports as well as personal attitudes and abilities. While parents played an important role in how confidently participants experienced the transition, peers appeared to have exerted a unique and important influence as sources of information and reassurance. Implications for practice and research are identified.