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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 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 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.
The stages of the family life cycle are:
Independence.- This stage is where you can still whatever you want,this stage also help you grow as who you are.
Coupling or marriage.-This stage means relationships begin with this. The need satisfied here is love and belonging. This stage is characterized by its dream like qualities, fantasies, and hopes for the future
Parenting: babies through adolescents.-Thus stage is where you experience real happiness ang joy although its hard to be a parent but its satisfying to be a mother/father
Launching adult children.-This stage is empty Nest the world Launching Adult Children. The stage of launching adult children begins when your first child leaves home and ends with the "empty nest." When older children leave home, there are both positive and negative consequences.
Retirement or senior years.-During the retirement phase of the family life cycle, many changes occur in your life. Welcoming new family members or ..lost of loved ones
For me the most rewarding stage is the retirement or senior years cause you know to yourself that without the struggles and challenge you facing you still show bravey and determination throughout the years you live
