The Family Life Cycle

Question 1

What is a Life Cycle ?

Answer 1

Is the specific stages of development through which an individual goes for the beginning of life to death.

Question 2

What is a Family Life Cycle

Answer 2

The family life cycle is the series f changes a family may go through overtime .

Question 3

Stages in the family Life Cycle

Answer 3

1. Beginning or Establishment
2. Child bearing and pre-school
3. School age
4. Adolescence
5. Beginning of the Transitioning or Launching of young adults .
6. Post parent
7. Retirement

Question 4

Begining stage Characteristics

Answer 4

1.Marriage or other unions
2. Setting up of house
3.Getting to know each other
4.Adjustment living together
5.Develope family Goals

Question 4

Expanding Stage - Characteristics

Answer 4

*Child Bearing and Pre-School

1.Adjustment of living together Continues

2. Full nest* begins

3.High demand Income

4. Reconization of roles and relationship yo Carter needs of infants and Pre-Schoolers

5 . High demand on income

** School age

1. Elementary and High school.
2. Financially dependent children
   3.Pre-adolsence
   4.Higher demand on income
   5.Full nest

***Adolescence
1.Increased in family expenses
2.Higher demand on income
3.Tertiary studies
4.Loosening of family yirs yo perimit greater freedom and heavier responsibility to members

5.Financially dependent children

***Begining of the transitioning ot launching of ying adults

1.Neat begins to decrease or become empty
2.Decreased moral and financial support
3.Divorce
4.Remarriages
5.Decreased demand Income

Question 5

Challenges at different stages of the family life cycle

Question 6

Stage 1: The begining stage

Answer 6

1. Adjusting to live with each other
   2.Sexual compatibility
   3.Adjustment to new friends
2. Saving and investment
   5.Family planning

Managing the changes

1. Effective communication
   2.exercising patience, love and mutual respect
   3.adjusting some of the family Goals which were initially identified
   4.Proffesisonal guidance and advice

Question 7

Stage 3: The expanding Stage

Answer 7

1.Divorce
2.Infidenlity
3.Miscarriages
4.Working to ensure overall satisfaction in the marriage .
5.inability to conceive

Managing the Challenges

1.A good understanding of the functions and roles of the family

2. A strong spiritual relationship

3.Good open lines of communication

4.assistace from a family counsellor

5.Effective conflict-managemet skills

Question 8

Stage 3: The Contracting stage

Answer 8

Challenges experienced by parent

1. Acceptance of and by their in-laws
2. The need for independence
   3.Loneliness due to the empty nest.
   4.Health related issues
   5.Divorce or separation

Question 9

Challenges experienced by adult children

Answer 9

1. Being over responsible for their parents while dealing with their own family, other interest and activities
2. Focusing on begining and maintaining their own marriages

3.Dealing with severed relationship with their parents due to unresolved conflicts .

4. Inability to cope with some of the characteristics and problems displayed by elderly.

Managing the Challenges

1.refocusing their lives on marriage without children,ot life without a space

2. developing effective adult relationship with the grown children and other relatives

3.Getting involved in manageable voluntary work.

Question 10

The Family Demographics

Answer 10

Family Demographics us the study of the composition of families and the transitions individuals make into and out of various types of families.

Question 11

Principles of management

Answer 11

Management skills are useful in almost everything you do.Management is a clear and orderly approach to do things. It is a process of using resources in a systematic way to achieve goals.