FNF 100 Lecture 8: The Family Life Cycle
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What is meant by life course perspective: orientation for the study of patterns of lives as they unfold across time: patterns of health, illness, and behaviours across life span. Recognizes the importance of early child development and the temporal dimension of health and aging. Recognizes that past and present experiences are shaped by wider social, economic, and cultural context. Key life course concepts: trajectories, transitions, turning points, cultural and contextual influences, timing in lives, linked lives, adaptive strategies. The family life cycle: intergenerational connectedness: the aim of the family life cycle is to provide a developmental approach of the life cycles in families. It also proposes to present a point of view of the life cycles in terms of inter- generational connectedness . Some context : the model is based on a traditional, heterosexual, multi-generational family context, identifies changing patterns of the family over time, used as a normative comparison.