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    The document discusses the life cycle approach to understanding families and their development over time. It outlines 8 stages of the family life cycle: 1) married couple without children, 2) child bearing families, 3) families with preschool children, 4) families with school-aged children, 5) families with teenagers, 6) families with launching young adults, 7) families with middle-aged parents, and 8) aging families. Each stage involves certain tasks and challenges as families and family members take on new roles and responsibilities. Understanding the typical progression through these stages can help families successfully navigate transitions.

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    The document discusses the life cycle approach to understanding families and their development over time. It outlines 8 stages of the family life cycle: 1) married couple without children, 2) child bearing families, 3) families with preschool children, 4) families with school-aged children, 5) families with teenagers, 6) families with launching young adults, 7) families with middle-aged parents, and 8) aging families. Each stage involves certain tasks and challenges as families and family members take on new roles and responsibilities. Understanding the typical progression through these stages can help families successfully navigate transitions.

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    Life cycle/span approach in

    understanding family,
    characteristics, goals, needs
    task and problems in each
    stage
    Family
     Family is a small social system made up of
    individuals related to each other by reason
    of strong reciprocal of affection and
    loyalties compromising permanent
    household or cluster of households that
    persists over year and decades. Member
    enter through birth, or marriage, and leave
    only by death. (Berman, 1978)
    The developmental approach

     It emerged out of sociology, child


    psychology and women development it
    focuses on the stages of development as
    the family moves through its life cycle.
    The Life cycle
     The emotional and intellectual stages you
    pass through from childhood to your
    retirement years as a member of a family
    are called the family life cycle.
     In each stage, you face challenges in your
    family life that cause you to develop or
    gain new skills.
    The Life cycle
     It does not happen in isolation but it takes place
    within the family life cycle which is primary
    content of Human development.
     Family development is unique its capacity to
    work over the natural history of
     Family formation
     Expansion
     Contraction
     Dissolution
    Why is it important to understand the
    family life cycle?

     Mastering the skills and milestones of each


    stage allows you to successfully move
    from one stage of development to the next.
     If you don't master the skills, you may still
    move on to the next phase of the cycle, but
    you are more likely to have difficulty with
    relationships and future transitions.
     Developing these skills helps you work
    through the changes that nearly every
    family goes through.
     Not everyone passes through these stages
    smoothly. Situations such as severe illness,
    financial problems, or the death of a loved
    one can have an effect on how well you
    pass through the stages.
     Family life cycle theory suggests that
    successful transitioning may also help to
    prevent disease and emotional or stress-
    related disorders.
     The more you understand about the
    challenges of each stage of the cycle, the
    more likely you are to successfully move
    on.
    Assumptions
     Family behaviour is the sum of past experience of
    family members as incorporated in the present as
    well as in their goals and expectations about the
    future.
     Families develop and change over time in similar
    and consistent way.
     Humans not only initiate actions as they mature
    and interact with others but also they react to
    environmental pressures.
     The family and its members must perform certain
    time specific tasks set by themselves and by person
    in the broader society.
    What can disrupt the normal cycle?

     The stress of daily living or coping with a


    chronic medical condition or other crisis
    disrupts the normal family cycle. A crisis
    or ongoing stress can delay the transition to
    the next phase of life, or you may move on
    but without the necessary skills to succeed.
     The approach focuses mainly on the changing
    role content in positions.
     It occurs in tandem with the changes in these
    positions
     The change in role content of one specific
    position is believed to bring about changes in
    all role positions that contain roles reciprocal
    to the changing positions.
     Each time there is marked change in the age,
    role content of any one the several positions in
    the family there is rearrangement of role
    reciprocities.
    Duvall 1971, Eight Stages
     Stages I: Married couple without children
     Stage II: Child bearing Families
    ( 1st Child 0-30 months)
     Stage III: Family with pre-school children
    (30 mths-6 yrs)
     Stage IV: Family with school age children
    (6 yrs- 13yrs)
     Stage V: Family with teenagers
    (13 yrs –20 yrs)
    Duvall 1971, Eight Stages cont…

    Stage VI : Family with launching young adults

    Stage VII : Family with middle age parents


    ( empty nest to retirement)

    Stage VIII : Ageing family


    ( Retirement to death of both spouse)
    Stage I: Married couple without
    children
     Principle: Commitment to a New System

     TASK :
    – Formation of Marital system
    – Re-alignment of relationships with
    Extended families and friends to include
    spouse
    – Establishing mutually satisfying marriage
    – Adjusting to pregnancy
    Difficulties
     Inability to shift family status –defective
    boundaries
     Implying in-laws may be too intrusive
     The new couples may be afraid to set limits
     Difficulty in forming adequate relationship
     Inability to formalize a couple relationship
     High expectations
     Entering into sexual life
     Change in the role
     Power arrangements
     Economic dependency
    Stage II: Child Bearing families
     Principle: Accepting new members into system

     TASKS:
     Adjusting marital system to make space for
    children
     Taking parenting roles
     Re-alignment of relationships with Extended
    families to include parenting and grand parenting
    role.
    Difficulties
     Disengagements of parents
     Privacy affected after birth of child
     Financial problems
     Child Rearing problems
     Working women is affected
     Difficulty in taking responsibility
     Change in life style
     Recreational life affected
     Emotional changes
     Worry about 2nd child
    Stage III: Family with pre-school
    children
     TASKS:
     Adapting to needs of pre-school children
     Coping with energy depletion
     Lack of privacy
     Preparation of child to go school
     Pre-academic skill training
    Difficulties
     Planning the gap between the 2 children
     Financial difficulties
     Sleeping arrangement
     More attention,love and care to children
    than husband (deprivation)
     Inadequate quality of time spent by working
    parents
     Difficulty in understanding child behaviour
     Increased responsibilities
    Stage IV: Family with school age
    children
     TASKS:
     Fitting into community
     Encouraging children educational
    achievement
     Searching good school
     Preparation of children to go to school
    Difficulties
     Financial difficulties
     Material needs of the child
     High expectations from child
     Change in family routine
     Additional responsibilities to parents
     Diff to maintain relationship between
    diff. sub system
     Change in life style
     Child demands
    Stage V: Family with
    Teenagers
     Principle: Increasing flexibility of boundaries
    to include children’s independence.
     TASKS
    – Shifting of parent- child relationship to
    permit adolescents to move in and out of
    system.
    – Refocus on midlife marital and career
    issues.
    – Beginning shift toward concern for older
    generation.
    – Balancing freedom with responsibility
    Difficulties
     Transition
     Differences in opinion
     Anxiety about feature
     Frequent arguments
     Difficulty in understanding the Physical,
    Social and psychological changes.
     Difficulty in giving orientation about sex
     High material demands
     Handling love affair
     Choosing career
    Stage VI: Family with
    Launching young adults
     PRINCIPAL: A multitude of exit from and
    entries into the family system
     TASK:
     Recognition of marital system as a dyad
     Development of adult to adult relationship
    between growth children and their parents
    Stage VI: cont…

     Realignment of relationship to include in-


    laws and grandchildren
     Dealing with disabilities and death of
    parents (grandparents)
     Maintaining a supportive home base
    Difficulties
     Sharing decision making with grown up
    child
     Sexual life
     Decision about son’s/daughter’s marriage
     Adjustment with son in-laws/d-in-laws
     Preparation about grand parenthood
    Stage VII: Family with middle
    age parents

     Principal:
    Accepting the shifting of generational role
    TASKS
    – Refocusing of marriage relationships
    – Maintain kin ties with older and younger
    generation
    Difficulties
     Child leaving home
     Children job
     Change in responsibilities toward child
     Changes in physical, social and sexual
    relationships.
     increased medical expenses
     Expectation from married child
    Stage VIII : Ageing family
    ( Retirement to death of both spouse)

     Principle: accepting shifting of generational


    roles
     TASKS
    – Maintain own couple functioning and interests in
    face of physiological decline.
    – Exploration of new familial and social role options
    – Dealing with loss of spouse, siblings and other peers
    – Preparation of own death
    – Adjustment to retirement
    – Life review and integration
    Difficulties
     Time spent with spouse
     Change in daily routine after retirement
     Adjustment to old age and problems
     Change in recreational activities.
     Adjust with loss of spouse
     Financial problem
     Dependence on children.
     Feeling loneliness

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