FAMILY LIFE CYCLE

FAMILY LIFE CYCLE

Represents composite of the individual
development changes of family members,
evolution of the marital relationship and the
cyclic development of the evolving family
unit.
Involves sequence of stressful changes that
requires compensating or reciprocal
readjustment by the family if it is to maintain
viability.
 Significance :
• Predictable, chronologically oriented
sequence of family life
• Sequence of stressful changes that requires
compensating reciprocal readjustments by the
family
• Related to clinical events and to health
maintenance of the family
 Levels of orders of manitude of
change
• 1. First order changes
– Involve increments of mastery and adaptation
– A “need to do” something new
– Do not involve change in main structure of family
or a change in an individual identity and self
image
 Levels of orders of manitude of
change
• 2. second order changes
– Involve transformation of an individual’s status
and meaning
– A “need to be” something new
– Change the very basic attributes of the family
system and change in the role and identity of
family members
 Family Life Cycle
1st
Unattached
young adult

6th
Family in 2nd
5th
later years Newly married
Launching family
couple

4th 3rd
Family with Family with
adolescent young children
 STAGES of the FAMILY LIFE CYCLE
1. Unattached Young Adult
 “between families” it is the start of family life
cycle
 Young adult formulate personal goals in
developing as an individual, including
forming a new family
 STAGES of the FAMILY LIFE CYCLE
1. Unattached Young Adult
2. The Newly Married Couple
 “The Joining of Families Through Marriage”
 The transition stage of the couple from their
lives as an individual to life as couple
 STAGES OF MARRIAGE
Stages Emotions Stage Critical Tasks
1. Honeymoon Commitment -differentiation from family of
Stage (0-2 yrs) to the origin
marriage - making room for spouse with
family and friends
-adjusting career demands
2. Early maturing of -keeping romance in the
marriage stage relationship marriage
(2-10 yrs) balancing separateness and
togetherness
-renewing marriage
commitment
 STAGES OF MARRIAGE

3. Middle post career -adjusting to midlife

marriage planning changes
stage (10-25 - renegotiating relationship
yrs.) -renewing marriage
commitment
4. Long-term Review and -maintaining couple
stage Farewells functioning
-closing or adapting family
home
-coping with death of
spouse
 STAGES of the FAMILY LIFE CYCLE
1.Unattached Young Adult
2.The Newly Married Couple
3.The Family with Young Children
 Starts with pregnancy of the 1st child
 New family status as wife=mother,
husband=father
 Conflict in home and school regulations
 STAGES of the FAMILY LIFE CYCLE
1. Unattached Young Adult
2. The Newly Married Couple
3. The Family with Young Children
4. The Family with Adolescent
 Parents approaching middle life stage
 Grandparents in the later stage
 Teenagers and their parents undergoing crisis
 STAGES of the FAMILY LIFE CYCLE
1.Unattached Young Adult
2.The Newly Married Couple
3.The Family with Young Children
4.The Family with Adolescent
5.Launching Family
 Begins when 1st child leaves home up to last
child leaves home
 Children starts their own family
 STAGES of the FAMILY LIFE CYCLE
1. Unattached Young Adult
2. The Newly Married Couple
3. The Family with Young Children
4. The Family with Adolescent
5. Launching Family
6. Family in Later Years
 Begins with departure of last child and
continuous through retirement of one or
both couples and ends when both dead
 STAGES
UNATTACHED YOUNG ADULT
Emotional Processes
– accepting parent offering separation
2ND Order Process
1. Differentiation of the self in relation to the family
of origin
2. Developing of intimate peer relationship
3. Establishment of self in work
 STAGES
UNATTACHED YOUNG ADULT
First Order Change
1. Extend social contact outside of home
includes dating clubs, and recreation.
2. Job employment.
3. Living accommodation.
 STAGES
UNATTACHED YOUNG ADULT
Problems
1. Episodic problems
2. Sexually transmitted disease
3. Unwanted pregnancy
4. Pre-employment check-up
 STAGES
NEWLY MARRIED COUPLE
Emotional Process
• Commitment to the new system
2nd Order Process
1. Formation of marital system.
2. Realignment of relationship with extended
families and friends to include spouse.
 STAGES
NEWLY MARRIED COUPLE
First Order Change
1. Establishing home base in a place to call
their own.
2. Establishing a mutually satisfying system for
getting and spending money.
3. Establishing mutually acceptable patterns of
who does that and who is accountable to
whom.
 STAGES
NEWLY MARRIED COUPLE
First Order Change
4. Establishing a continuity of mutually
satisfying sex relationship.
5. Establishing system of intellectual and
emotional communication.
6. Establishing a workable relationship with
relatives.
 STAGES
NEWLY MARRIED COUPLE
First Order Change
7. Establishing of interacting with friends and
associates in the community.
8. Facing the possibility of children and the
planning for their coming.
 STAGES
NEWLY MARRIED COUPLE
Problems
1. Episodic problems
2. Early pregnancy
3. STD
4. Job related physical exam
5. Gynecologic problem
6. infertility
 STAGES
NEWLY MARRIED COUPLE
Problems
• Emotional and Social
1. Depression due to forced early marriage and
unwanted pregnancy.
2. Jealousy to jobs, friends, and previous
fiancee.
3. Emotional problems relating to new role as a
spouse.
 STAGES
NEWLY MARRIED COUPLE
Problems
• Emotional and Social
4. Problems relating to in-laws, friends, peer and
money.
5. Demands of new role.
6. Problems of adjustment to office and work.
 STAGES
FAMILY WITH YOUNG CHILDREN
2nd Order Process
1. Accepting marital system to make space for
children.
2. Taking on parenting role.
3. Realignment of relationship with extended
family to include parenting and
grandparenting roles
 STAGES
FAMILY WITH YOUNG CHILDREN
First Order Change
1. Supplying adequate space, facilities and
equipment for the expanding family.
2. Meeting predictable and unexpected costs of
family life with small children.
3. Sharing responsibilities within the extended
family and between members of the growing
family
 STAGES
FAMILY WITH YOUNG CHILDREN
First Order Change
4. Maintaining mutually satisfactory sexual
relationship and planning for the future
children.
5. Creating and maintaining effective
communication system in the family.
6. Cultivating the full potentials of relationship
with relatives within the extended family.
 STAGES
FAMILY WITH YOUNG CHILDREN
First Order Change
7. Tapping resources, serving needs and
enjoying contracts outside the family.
8. Facing dilemmas and reworking philosophies.
 STAGES
FAMILY WITH YOUNG CHILDREN
Problems
1. Episodic medical problem
2. OB-Gyne problems
3. Family Planning
4. Annual PE in the job
5. STD
 STAGES
FAMILY WITH YOUNG CHILDREN
Problems
• Emotional and Social
1. Peer pressure on alcoholism and other vices
2. Sexual inadequacies
3. Spouse abuse
4. Job related problems
5. Problems on child rearing
 STAGES
FAMILY WITH YOUNG CHILDREN
Problems
• Emotional and Social
6. Communication problem
7. In-laws problem
8. Taking care of the sick and old parents or in-
laws
9. Financial difficulties
 STAGES
FAMILY WITH YOUNG CHILDREN
 Problems
• Grandparents
1. Episodic medical problem
2. Degenerative diseases
3. Chronic debilitating diseases
• Emotional and Social
1. Psychosomatic problems related to illness and
loneliness
2. Financial difficulties
 STAGES
FAMILY WITH YOUNG CHILDREN
Problems
• Children
1. Episodic medical problem
2. Accidents
3. GOBI
4. Mental retardation
5. Poisoning
 STAGES
FAMILY WITH YOUNG CHILDREN
Problems
• Children: Emotional and social
1. Learning deficiency
2. Child abuse and neglect
 STAGES
FAMILY WITH ADOLESCENTS
Emotional Process
– Increasing flexibilities of boundaries to
include children independence
2nd Order Process
1. Shifting parent child relationship.
2. Re-focus on midlife, marital and career
issue.
3. Beginning shift towards concern for
older generation.
 STAGES
FAMILY WITH ADOLESCENTS
First Order Process
1. Providing facilities for widely different
needs.
2. Working out money matters in the family
with teenagers.
3. Sharing tasks of responsibilities of family
living.
4. Putting the marriage relationship into focus.
 STAGES
FAMILY WITH ADOLESCENTS
First Order Process
5. Keeping the communications system open.
6. Maintaining contacts with extended family.
7. Growing into world as a family and as a
person.
8. Reworking and maintaining a philosophy of
life.
 STAGES
FAMILY WITH ADOLESCENTS
Problems
1. Drug and other substances abuse.
2. STD
3. Acne, bad odor
4. Gynecologic problem
5. Menstrual problem
6. Allergies and other skin diseases
7. Circumcision
 STAGES
FAMILY WITH ADOLESCENTS
Problems: Emotional and Social
1. Sexual experimentation leading to
pregnancy.
2. Homosexuality
3. Conflict with parents
4. Juvenile delinquency
5. Depression secondary to peer pressure,
identity crisis and secondary sex
 STAGES
FAMILY WITH ADOLESCENTS
Problems: Emotional and Social
6. Child prostitution
7. Suicidal tendencies
 STAGES
FAMILY WITH ADOLESCENTS
Problems
 Parents Medical
1. Common medical problems
2. OB-Gyne
3. Pre-menopausal symptoms
4. Alcoholism and other vices
 STAGES
FAMILY WITH ADOLESCENTS
Problems
Parents Medical: Emotional and Social
1. Middle life crisis
2. Male climacterium
3. Extra-marital affairs
4. Insecurities secondary to changing
appearance and sexuality
 STAGES
LAUNCHING STAGE
Emotional Process
Accepting a multitude of entries and exits into
the family system.
 STAGES
LAUNCHING STAGE
2nd Order Process
1. Renegotiation of marital system as a dyad
2. Developing of adult to adult relationship
between grown-up children and their parents.
3. Realignment of relationship to include in-laws
and grandchildren.
4. Dealing with disabilities and death of parents
and grandparents.
 STAGES
LAUNCHING STAGE
First Order Process
1. Adjusting to the physiologic changes of
middle age.
2. Discovering new relation with spouse.
3. Setting up a comfortable home for themselves
that accomodate periodically other members
of the family.
 STAGES
LAUNCHING STAGE
First Order Process
4. Helping their adolescent children to free
themselves and become responsible and
happy adults with families of their own.
5. Re-examining their living arrangement with
their own parents.
6. Adjusting to the reality of their own work
situation.
 STAGES
LAUNCHING STAGE
First Order Process
7. Assuring security for their later years.
8. Participating in community life.
9. Reaffirming the values of life that have real
meaning esp. dependent newly married
children.
10.Sexual relationship with spouse.
 STAGES
LAUNCHING STAGE
Problems
1. Episodic medical problem
2. OB-Gyne
3. Degenerative diseases
 Emotional and Social
1. Career stagnation
2. Emptiness syndrome
3. Overdependent married children
 STAGES
LAUNCHING STAGE
Problems
 Emotional and Social
4. Early retirement financial problem
5. Extra-marital affairs
6. Taking care of sick parent or in-law
7. Adjustment of the new member of the family
 STAGES
LAUNCHING STAGE
Problems
Children: Medical
1. Episodic medical problem
2. OB-Gyne problem
3. Medical problems of the adolescent
 STAGES
LAUNCHING STAGE
Problems
Children: Emotional and Social
1. Independence and dependency problems
2. Juvenile delinquency
3. Peer group pressure on vices
4. Problems of old relatives
5. Conflict with parents
6. Problem on adjustment to married life
 STAGES
FAMILY IN LATER LIFE
 Emotional Process
– Accepting the shifting of generational goals
 2nd order Process
1. Maintaining own and or couple functioning
and interest in the face of physiologic
decline, exploration of new familial and
social role options.
 STAGES
FAMILY IN LATER LIFE
 2nd order Process
2. Support for more central role for middle
generation.
3. Making room in the system for the wisdom
and experience of the elderly generation w/o
over functioning them.
4. Dealing with loss of spouse siblings and other
peers and preparation for own death, life
review and integration.
 STAGES
FAMILY IN LATER LIFE
 First order Process
1. Adjusting to physiologic changes of later life.
2. Re-examining their living arrangements.
3. Participating in group activities.
4. Maintaining contact with younger
generations.
 STAGES
FAMILY IN LATER LIFE
Problems
1. Degeneration diseases
2. Episodic medical problems
3. Gynecologic problems
4. Urologic problems
 STAGES
FAMILY IN LATER LIFE
Problems: Emotional and Social
1. Depression d/t death of spouse and sickness
2. OB-Gyne problems
3. Menopausal symptoms
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