CDFS 408 Lecture 1: cdfs 408 1A module

• School: CSULB
• Department: Child Development and Family Studies
• Course: CDFS 408
• Professor: Rita Gosher

Document Summary

An event or situation that causes a new life stage. A change from one life stage to another. The ease in which one transitions into and out of a life stage is dependent on multiple interrelated factors. A period of time that requires unique roles and responsibilities. Example: minor living at home, married living with spouse. There is a normative sequence to stages defined by society. The transition to parenthood is a phenomenon that has been study by multiple field of social science. Ruben hill (1949) father of modern family stress theory focused on separated families during. Hill"s work led to the development of the now famous abc-x model of family stress. As the impact of various crisis on the american family was being analyses the family was seen as a social system. Lemasters questioned whether parenthood should be considered a crisis.