Family Life cycle Flashcards
Represents composite of the individual developmental changes of family members
Family Life cycle
Shows the evolution of the
marital relationship
Family Life cycle
Presents cyclic development of the evolving family unit.
Family Life Cycle
Why study the family life cycle?
It provides a predictable, chronologically oriented
sequence of events in family life and it can be related to their health maintenance
STAGES OF THE FAMILY LIFE CYCLE
- unattached young adult
- newly married couples
- Family with young children
- Family with adolescents
- Launching Family
- Family in later years
It is the start of the family life cycle wherein the young adult has come to terms with the family of origin.
Unattached young adult
This is the transition stage of the couple from their lives as an individual to life as couple.
Newly married couple
This stage starts with
pregnancy for the first child
to emergence of adolescents
The Family with Young
Children
A family with adolescents has generally reached a stage when the parents are
approaching a middle life stage and the grandparents are in the later stage.
The Family with
Adolescents
This stage begins when the
first child leaves home and
ends when the last child
leaves home.
Launching family
This begins with departure
of last child and continues
through retirement of one or both of the couple and ends when both are dead
Family in Later Years
TWO LEVELS OF ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE OF CHANGE
- FIRST ORDER CHANGES
2. Second order changes
Tasks that must be accomplished by the family and family members working within a stage of the Family Life Cycle.
FIRST ORDER CHANGES
Additions to existing state of
the individual’s self and
family
FIRST ORDER CHANGES
Do not involve change in
the main structure of the
family
FIRST ORDER CHANGES
Do not involve a change in
an individual’s identity and
self image
First order changes
INVOLVES TRANSFORMATION OF AN INDIVIDUAL’S STATUS AND MEANING
SECOND ORDER
CHANGES
Change in the very basic
attributes of the family
system
SECOND ORDER CHANGES
Occur between stages of
the Family Life Cycle
SECOND ORDER CHANGES
Change in the role and
identity of family members
SECOND ORDER CHANGES
What change in Family Status is Required to Proceed Developmentally
Second Order Changes
First order changes in unattached young adult
- Widen social circles
- Job employment
- Living accommodation
Emotional process of transition for new married adults
Commitment to the new system
Second order changes in new married couples
- Formation of marital system
2. Realignment of relationship with friends and family to include spouse
First order changes in new married couples
- Establish a home
- Establish savings and spending
- Establish responsibilities
- Establish mutual sexual relationship
- Establish communication
- Establish workable relationship with relatives
- Establish connection with friends and community
- Facing posibility of children
Second Order Changes in Family with young children
- Accepting to make space for children
- Accepting to take on parenting role
- Realignment of relationship with extended family
First order changes in Family with young children
- Supply space for growing family
- Meeting predictable and unpredictable cost of family life
- Sharing responsibilities with extended family
- Maintaining mutually satisfactory sexual
relationship and planning for the future children - Maintain communication
- cultivate full potentials of relationships
- Tapping resources and serve others
- facing dilemmas
Emotional Process of Transition for family with adolescents
Increasing flexibility of boundaries to include children independence
Second Order Changes in Family with adolescents
- permit the adolescent to move in and out of the system
- Refocus on mid life and marriage issues
- Refocus towards older gen.
First order changes in family with adolescents
- Provide facilities for widely different needs
- working out money matters
- Sharing responsibilities
- putting marriage into focus
- Preserve communication
- Maintain contacts with extended family
- Growing into the world as a family
- Reworking and maintaining a philosophy in life
Emotional Process of
Transition for launching a family
Accepting a multitude of entries and exits into the family system
Second order changes in launching a family
- Marriage renegotiation as a dyad
- adult to adult relationship with children
- realignment of relationship to include in laws and grandchildren
- Dealing with disabilities and death of parents
First order changes in launching family
- adjusting to physiological changes
- discovering new satisfaction with spouse
- setting up a comfortable home
- setting their children free as responsible adults
- re-examine living arrangements with parents
- adjusting to the reality of their own work situation
- Assuring security for their later years
- participating in community life
- reaffirming values of life
- sexual relationship with spouse
Emotional Process of
Transition in family in later years
Accepting the shifting of
generational goals
Second order changes in family in later years
- Maintain function of marriage despite bodily decline
- support for the middle generation
- making room in the system for the wisdom and experience of the elderly
generation without over
functioning them - Dealing with loss of spouse
First Order Changes for family in later years
- Adjusting to physiological changes of later life
- Re-examine living arrangements
- Participate in group activities
- Maintain contact with young generation
