COHERENCE OF PUBLIC POLICIES IN POLAND IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE PROCESS ON REACHING COMPLETED ADULTHOOD

The issue of transition into adulthood, treated as a complex, multi-dimensional and multi-stage social process, is not explicitly an object of interest to public policies, including social policy. The context of the life course policy mentioned in the analyzes is justified by the institutionalization of tasks related to functioning in society typical of completed adulthood: completing education, taking up employment, setting up your own household and family. The so-called delayed transition into adulthood means an increasingly later implementation of these tasks. The barriers to reaching completed adulthood discussed in the article mean that this process becomes a social problem that should be prevented by public activities. The article synthetically summarizes the results of the research “Public policies for full adulthood in Poland” (National Science Center No. 2014/15/B/HS5/03284). The aim of the considerations is to indicate the level of coherence and coordination in the creation and implementation of political and institutional instruments that would support young adult Poles in the process of reaching full adulthood in the above-mentioned dimensions. The conclusions from the research prove the need to separate the transition to adulthood regime in Polish social policy (public policies).