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Family life cycle

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  • model of change proposed by the family life cycle (FLC)
  • emphasised dev in families and how common patterns were shaped by the shifting patterns of internal and external demands
  • changes in a family - changes to a family composition ex: birth of child, death, separation, retirement etc
  • problems - ass with life changes. Critique - change is looked from a neg perspective
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Family cycle - Haley

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Transitional stages for families -

1 courtship
2 early marriage 
3 birth of child
4 middle marriage
5 kids leaving home
6 retirement and old age 
  • duvall - first expanded the idea of the individual life cycle to the concept of a family life cycle.
  • carter and mcgoldrick -gave major impetus to duvall’s theory. They modified the cycles:
    1. Families must reorganise to accommodate growth and change of their members.
    2 dev in family generation may impact 1 or more members
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Family life cycle stages

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Stage 1 - young adults leaving home

Emotional process - emotional and financial responsibility

  • differences of self in relartion to family of origin
  • dev of intimate peer rels outside the family of origin
  • establishing oneself in relation to work and financial independence

Stage 2 - marriage

Emotional process - committing to new system

  • formation of new system
  • realigning rels with extended families and friends including spouse
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Family life cycles cont…

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Stage 3 - young children

Emotional tasks - accepting of new members

  • adjustments in marital space allowing new members
  • joining in childrearing, financial and household tasks
  • realignment of rels with extended families: grandparenting roles

Stage 4 - families with adols

Emotional process - increasing flexibility of family boundaries, kids’ gain more independence, grandparents’ frailties

  • refocus of marital and career issues
  • beginning shift of caring for the older gen
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Family life cont…

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Stage 5 - relaunching kids

Emotional process -
- accepting multiple exit and entries to the family system

  • renegotiating of marital system as a dyad
  • dev of adult to adult rels
  • in-laws & grandkids
  • dealing with disabilities and deaths in the family

Stage 6 - families in later life

Emotional process -
- accepting of general roles

  • maintaining own or couple physiological functioning
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Critique of family life

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  • feminist therapists - awareness of societal factors like gender role expectations and the oppression that comes with such factors