Research and read a minimal of any four (4) professional journal articles regarding Family Life Cycle, Theories that address Human Behavior, etc. or data that can support your Family Life Cycle Assessment paper. The Family Life Assessment to include ALL six (6) stages listed. Beginning stage childbearing stage parenting stage launching stage mid-years stage aging stage Not all families will experience all stages. For this assignment, the family will experience all stages; support your responses with scholarly research sources. NOTE: 12-font, Times New-Roman, and adhere to APA standards with this assignment – Cover Page; Body of Paper; Reference Page. And, adhere to all other requirements provided by the course professor.

Family Life Cycle Assessment Instructions 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, one faces challenges in their family life that allow you to build or gain new skills. Gaining these skills helps you work through the changes that nearly every family goes through. Not everyone passes through these stages smoothly. Situations such as severe illness, financial problems, or the death of a loved one can affect how well you pass through the stages. Fortunately, if you miss skills in one stage, you can learn them in later stages. Why is it important to understand the family life cycle? Mastering the skills and milestones of each stage allows an individual to move from one stage of development to the next successfully. If an individual doesn't master the skills, he/she may still move on to the next phase of the cycle, but you are more likely to have difficulty with relationships and future transitions. The family life cycle theory suggests that successful transitioning may also help to prevent disease and emotional or stress-related disorders. Whether you are a parent or child, brother or sister, bonded by blood or love, your experiences through the family life cycle will affect who you are and who you become. The more an individual understands the challenges of each stage of the cycle, the more likely he/she is to move on successfully. Assignment Instructions: Identify a hypothetical case (a hypothetical case/situation- a case or situation that is made up, imaginary) or a case from your student internship experience - assign a name to your case or a pseudonym name (a name that a person or group assumes for a particular purpose), which differs from their original or true name (orthonym). Required in the Family Life Cycle Assessment assignment: male and female, same-sex couples, cohabitating couples, etc.; educated, vocational training, laborer; children: 3-6 dependents; parenting years, pre-schooling, elementary school, middle-schooling, secondary-schooling, college, vocational, etc.; family system/unit in later years, aging stage, etc. Research and read a minimal of any four (4) professional journal articles regarding Family Life Cycle, Theories that address Human Behavior, etc. or data that can support your Family Life Cycle Assessment paper. The Family Life Assessment to include ALL six (6) stages listed. Beginning stage childbearing stage parenting stage launching stage mid-years stage aging stage Not all families will experience all stages. For this assignment, the family will experience all stages; support your responses with scholarly research sources. NOTE: 12-font, Times New-Roman, and adhere to APA standards with this assignment – Cover Page; Body of Paper; Reference Page. And, adhere to all other requirements provided by the course professor. Family Life Cycle Stages Family lifecycle stage: the emotional process of transition: second-order changes required in family status 1. Leaving home: single young adults: Accepting emotional and financial responsibility for self: a. Differentiation of self in relation to the family of origin, b. Development of intimate peer relationships, c. Establishment of self with respect to work and financial independence. 2. The joining of families through marriage: the new couple: Commitment to a new system: a. Formation of marital system, b. Realignment of relationships with extended families and friends to include a spouse. 3. Families with young children: Accepting new members into the system: a. Adjusting the marital system to make space for children, b. joining in child-rearing, financial, and household tasks, c. Realignment of relationships with extended family to include parenting and grandparenting roles. 4. Families with adolescents: Increasing flexibility of family boundaries to permit children's independence and grandparents' frailties: a. shifting of parent/child relationships to permit adolescents to move into and out of the system, b. Refocus on midlife marital and career issues, c. the beginning shift toward caring for the older generation. 5. Launching children and moving on: Accepting a multitude of exits from and entries into the family system: a. Renegotiation of the marital system as a dyad, b. Development of adult-to-adult relationships between grown children and their parents, c. Realignment of relationships to include in-laws and grandchildren d. dealing with disabilities. 6. Families in later life: Accepting the shifting generational roles: a. Maintaining own and couple functioning and interests in the face of physiological decline: the exploration of new familial and social role options, b. Support for a more central role of the middle generation, c. Making room in the system for the wisdom and experience of the elderly, supporting the older generation without over-functioning for them, d. Dealing with the loss of a spouse, siblings, and other peers and preparation for death. Please review the attached Prezi and YouTube Videos: https://prezi.com/g1rz3avcqiqo/family-life-cycle-assignment/ https://youtu.be/ZN_5nMQfDFw https://youtu.be/oVU9Xb4pIHU https://youtu.be/Mk8AMV0gpk0