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The Family Life Cycle

Explore the different stages of the family life cycle from young adulthood to later life, focusing on adjustments, relationships, faith, and milestones. Understand the needs, challenges, and opportunities for growth at each stage.

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The Family Life Cycle

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  1. The Family Life Cycle • Young Adulthood • Beginning Family – New Couple • Childbearing Family – Preschool Children • Family with School Age Children • Family with Adolescents • Launching Family – Young Adults • Family in Later Life

  2. Young Adulthood • Leaving home • Intimate relationships with peers • Establishing self in worklife, career, vocation • Explore faith on own and with peers

  3. Beginning Family – New Couple • Adjusting to roles of husband and wife • Realigning relationships with family of origin & friends to includespouse • Learning to worship, pray together

  4. Childbearing Family – Preschool Children • Accepting new members and adjusting the marital relationship • Spouses become parents • Beginning familytraditions and faith rituals

  5. Family with School Age Children • Adjust roles and responsibilities as children enter school • Relating to other families and differing ideas • Developing faith traditions, passing on values

  6. Family with Adolescents • Maintaining structure while allowing greater independence • Teens give moretime, significance to peers • Deeper questioning of faith, church

  7. Launching Family – Young Adults • Developing adult-adult relationships • Exits and entries into family system • New relationships as children establish families

  8. Family in Later Life • Empty nest through retirement • Loss of relatives and friends • Adjusting to physical limitations • New opportunities in society and church

  9. Diverse Paths in the Family Life Cycle • Divorce and separated families • Death of family member • Single parenthood • Remarriage and blended family • Poverty and hardship • Immigration and migration

  10. Ministry and the Family Life Cycle • Families at each stage have different needs and challenges • Transitions in family life are occasions for stress, re-negotiation, learning, and grace • As families negotiate the tasks of each stage, opportunities for faith growth open up

  11. The Family Life Cycle • Young Adulthood • Beginning Family – New Couple • Childbearing Family – Preschool Children • Family with School Age Children • Family with Adolescents • Launching Family – Young Adults • Family in Later Life

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