The Family Life Cycle

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Study Unit: MGG2601 Unique Assignment Number: 298702 Assignment 1 Due Date: 02 April 2013 Table of Contents Introduction to the family 2 Outline of the Family Life Cycle Model 2 Identify the stage of the family life cycle that best resembles the stage of family life that the couple is experiencing 4 Key principles and Second Order Changes the family are experiencing 4 The extent to which the couple’s family life cycle adheres to Carter and McGoldrick’s Model (1989) 4 The couple’s experiences pertaining to the preceding developmental stage of the family life cycle 5 Vertical Stressors 5 Horizontal Stressors 6 System-level Stressors 6 The Couple’s relationship strengths 7 Guidelines for other couples 7 Critique of the Family Life Cycle Model 8 Bibliography 9 Addendum 1 10 Introduction to the family In the interest of providing the couple with confidentiality they will be from here on out referred to by the pseudonym “Mr and Mrs Smith” or as the “couple”. Mr and Mrs Smith met in 1987 and got married in 1988. They have been married for 25 years. Mr Smith is a 60 year old man, he is a civil engineer by trade and currently works in an internet solutions company. Mrs Smith is a 55 year old female and is a registered nurse. Mr and Mrs Smith were both raised in the Christian faith but neither of them are currently practicing. Mr and Mrs Smith are Caucasian and English speaking and currently live in an urban geographic location in the Johannesburg suburbs. Mr and Mrs Smith have two children both of them are adults. There younger adult child is 21 years old and currently lives at home while she studies at university. Their older adult child is 25 years old and has fairly recently moved out of the family home and into his own home. He works at an internet solutions company and is currently building a life

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