PSYC 3404 Lecture 14: Families, Lifestyle, Parenting

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Family cycle: launching (of people) new couple (intimate relationships with people) . Becomes parents and family with children (adopting, giving birth) family with adolescents. Family at midlife: periods of launching children, linking generations. Increase number of single adults, more multigenerational families: postponed marriages, less children, more females in labor force, more divorce, more remarriages more single parent households. Dramatic increase in the number of adults that are single. Advantages: autonomous decisions, personal schedule, freedom, privacy. Disadvantage: fewer resources, isolation, loneliness, stereotypes: harder to form relationships as you age (ex: not invited to events) Cohabitation: living together in a sexual relationship without getting married. Cultural variations, and have different functions (people have different reasons to cohabitate that might change with age/ situations) Young adult: spend more time together, share expenses, evaluate compatibility, gender differences, men: loss of freedom, women: delays in getting married.

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