SOC244H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Population Ageing, Baby Boom, Middle Age
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Stage 2: childbearing families (oldest child, birth-30 months) Stage 3: families with pre-school children (oldest child-2. 5- 6 years) Stage 4: families with schoolchildren (oldest child, 6-13 years) Stage 5: families with teenagers (oldest child, 13-20 years) Stage 6: families as launching centers (first child gone to last child leaving home) Stage 7: middle-age pare(cid:374)ts ((cid:862)e(cid:373)pt(cid:455)-(cid:374)est(cid:863) to retire(cid:373)e(cid:374)t) Stage 8: aging family members (retirement to death of both spouses) Family behaviour is the sum of the previous experiences of family members as incorporated in the present and in their expectations for the future. Families develop and change over time in similar and consistent ways. Families and their members perform certain time-specific tasks that are set by them and by the cultural and societal content. Five basic themes of the life course perspective: the importance of multiple temporal contexts. A life course perspective emphasizes the importance of time, context, process, and meaning on human development and family life.
