Discuss whether the concept of family life cycle has relevance today. Justify your reasons.

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  1. Discuss whether the concept of family life cycle has relevance today. Justify your reasons.

Today we don’t see the “Family Life Cycle” the way that people saw it in earlier days because of many different reasons: the family life cycle that they saw was:

Beginning Stage – Couples living together until the birth of their first child

Expanding Stage – The birth of the first child until the last child leaves home

Contracting Stage -  Couples living alone.

Some of the reasons why, we the society don’t see it like this because nowdays the beginning stage, a lot of people do live together in a long term relationship but don’t decide to have kids or are unable to have kids. Then there is the Expanding Stage where many parents have their kids and during their growth they divorce or even sometimes are unable to care for the child and it either gets taken off them or lives with a relative. Then last of all there is the Contracting Stage where many families also after all is done with the kids they divorce, or a spouse gets to sick and dies or even put into a nursing home.

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So the concept of family life cycle these today really has no relevance.

  1. What have been the factors, which have contributed to the changes in          

      family life?

            There are many factors that have contributed to the changes in family life.              

            Here are some of the main factors that have contributed:

           *Women in the workforce

           *Changes in the ...

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