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250n44; leaving home for (U.S.), 90–91; living arrangements for (Dutch), 94, 241n40; as work (Dutch), 92

Vanwesenbeeck, Ine, 230n45 Varenne, Hervé, 237n16, 242n42 Veldhuis, T., 255n69

virginity: Dutch boys on, 132; Dutch parents on, 29, 42; polls on beliefs about, 4; as safety from STIs, 160; teens as secretive about loss of, 137; stigma

of teenage boys’, 5; U.S. parents on, 250n39.
See also
abstinence, parents’ emphasis on

Visser, Jelle, 247n19

Vliet, Trudy van (pseud.), 35, 44, 92

Vries, Han de (pseud.), 39, 44, 101–2 Vries, Jos de (pseud.), 92

Waal, Mieke de, 245n27 Wel, Frits van, 253n62

welfare state: adolescent sexuality affected by, 204–5; individuals and collectivities constituted in, 194–99; measures of, 238n11

—Dutch: as civil ideal, 192, 249n28; equal- ity and equanimity in, 250–51n45; historical precedent of, 248n26; income replacement in, 79; legislation and revi- sions of, 200, 248n22, 250n43; politics underlying, 190–92; wages and income compared, 249n31, 249n33; working women and changes in, 253n62; in young adulthood, 84, 92, 241n32

—U.S.: holes and limits of, 192–94; wages and income compared, 249n31, 249n33

Western City (pseud.), description of, 10, 224

white middle classes: countries compared, 213, 215; definition of, 213–14; “moder- ate middle” of, 11; policies influenced by, 16; working mothers in, 240n28.
See also
education; jobs; place of residence; religiosity

Whitman, James, 232n83, 253n59 Wijngaarden, Anne van (pseud.), 34–35,

95, 102

Williams, Laurie (pseud.), 97–98 Williams, Margaret (pseud.), 97, 114, 123,

163, 164

Williams, Raymond, 13

Wood, Carole (pseud.), 67, 68, 97 Wood, Donald (pseud.): adolescent

experiences of, 72–73; battle between sexes frame of, 60; on conversations about contraception, 67–68; economic insecurity of, 250n39; on pregnancy and STDs, 58

World Health Organization, 240n25

World Values Study, 256n17

Wouters, Cas: on commercial elites, 258n4; on interdependence, 232n78, 239n20; on women’s power and government benefits, 250–51n45

WWR, 249n28

Zanden, Corinne van (pseud.): on adult- hood and moving out, 93, 94; on parent-teen communications, 34, 35,

43, 100; relationship-based sexuality frame of, 38; on teenage drinking, 89

zero-tolerance policies, 98–99, 129