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Beginning Stage
-establishes a new home and their marriage relationships
rewards: start having a stronger relationship/becomes closer to one another
challenges: mobility, moving away from home and family
-start a new life and plan for the future ahead of them
-can be emotional, thinking about the pregnancy and taking the right amount of vitamins needed -
Parental Stage 1
-couples prepare and adjust to parenthood
-go to close friends and family for support
-stress starts becoming a factor
-start building/moving into home
-work place changes: say Marianna's mother needed to learn more about computer skills she would take a night course and not be home with the child -
Parental Stage 2
-as the children grow, parents work to meet the childs changing needs and help them develop independence
-parents teach them from right and wrong.
-start setting rules
-work place changes: mother has to stay at home caring for her child more
-making mistakes is okay, it is part of learning to improve your
skills for later on
-can be frusterating -
Parental Stage 3
-this is where the children eventually leave home
-the parents will have more time to themselves
-they can help their children adapt to a new life
-"launching stage"
-aging: the children become older
-economic changes: start saving to pay for the child's college and their future
-will have to worry about their child being gone and have to keep in touch -
Middle Age
-renews relationship and plans for retirement
-"empty net" stage
-stops working full time
-getting used to have a lot more free time
-workplace changes: investing less time
-spend more time with the kids and do more things -
Retirement
-adjusts to having more free time
-has to get used to not doing something all the time
-will be less occupied
-mobility: may spread out and move somewhere else
-if so, it will take time and effort to remain close with the family you lived with
