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The emotional and intellectual stages you pass through from childhood to your retirement years as a member of a family are called the family life cycle.

In each stage, you face challenges in your family life that cause you to build or gain new skills. Gaining these skills helps you work through the changes that nearly every family goes through.

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Not everyone passes through these stages smoothly. Situations such as severe illness, financial problems, or the death of a loved one can have an effect on how well you pass through the stages.

Fortunately, if you miss skills in one stage, you can learn them in later stages.

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The concept of “family life cycle” has been vividlydescribed by Duvall(1977)as Under..

The family life cycle , used as a frame ofreferences, affords a longitudinal view of family life . Itis based on the recognition of successive phases andpatterns as they occur within the continuity of familyliving over the years. It opens the way for study for theparticular problems an potentials, rewards and hazards ,vulnerability and strengths of each phase of familyexperience from beginning to end.

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Families mature as their children grow up through childhood into adolescence , and finally into adulthood and make homes of their own.

slow moving years of the ‘empty nest ‘ period when middle aged and aging parents face the later half of their marriage together as a pair.

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The family life cycle , as depicted consists of eight stages..

1. Married couples(without children)-2 year2. Child bearing families (oldest childbirth-30 months)-2.5 ear3. Families with preschool children (oldest child 2-6 years)-3.5 years4. Families with school-age children (oldest child6-13 years)-7 years5. Families with teenagers (oldest child 13-20 years)-7 years6. Families launching young adults (first child gone to last child’s leaving

Home )-8years7.Middle aged parents (empty nest to retirement )-15 years8.Aging family members (retirement to death of both spouses)-10 to 15 years

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Description of life from cradle to the grave.

Analysis anticipating the possible happenings in later Stage in family life.

Knowledge of a family ‘s position in the life cycle helps in anticipation of vital factors .

Helps in understanding systematic qualities of the family.

It is possible to study that life is continuous , flowing from one stage to another , without a break /pause.

There are number of advantages of the

family life cycle concept. These include:

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Marriage is a critical transition point for couple.

It involves moving on from their families and from theorientation phase of their development to the unfamiliarhusband –wife relationship within the marriage and theirmajor goal of adjustment to life as the marriage partners.

Developmental Tasks of Stage 1:Married couples(independent stage)

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The developmental tasks of the young married couple are as follows:

1.Becoming established in an occupation:

Getting specialize training.

Assuming responsibility for getting and holding job.

Working towards security and advancement in work.

1.Making a home and managing the household:

Getting settled in her home.

Establishing and maintaining household routines.

Learning the many skills of homemaking and housework.

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The developmental tasks of the young married couple are as follows:

2.Assuming responsibility for the support of the family :

Earning the family income .

Planning for the long pull of family support through the years.

2.Becoming a financial helpmate in establishing the home :

Working until her husband is established.

Seeing work as secondary and possible intermittent.

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The family developmental tasks of the married couple include :

1) Finding , furnishing and maintaining their first home.

2) Establishing mutually satisfactory ways of supporting themselves.

3) Allocating responsibilities that each partner is able and willing to assume.

4) Establishing mutually acceptable personal ,emotional , and sexual roles.

5) Interacting with in laws , relatives and community.

6) Planning for possible children

7) Maintaining couple motivation and morale.

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finding and furnishing a suitable home .

Their desire and dreams are often beyond their resources.

The young couple may risk spending more than they earn , buying too much on credit on getting in to debt , with multiple monthly payments for thing they bought on the installment plan.

Before they realize how to much their regular costs will be for food , rent ,fuel ,car expensive and all the rest , they are overcommitted.

They usually struggle to meet the high cost of living with resources more modest than either of them had as single persons.

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