Mrs. Skidmore's Projected Family Life Cycle

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    Beginning Stage

    No children of my own.
    Begin dating my future husband.
    Move in together.
    Get married in 2017.
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    Parenting Stage

    Continue parenting Emery (my stepdaughter) and parent my own children starting when the first one is born in 2019.
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    Childbearing Stage

    Begin having my own children. Preferably 2.
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    Launching Stage

    Emery turns 18 and moves out in 2029. This stage will last until my last child is 18 in 2038.
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    Mid-Years Stage

    My husband and I get used to living on our own again. We look forward to our children becoming parents and us becoming grandparents until I retire in 2054 at the ripe old age of 65.
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    Aging Stage

    Retire at the age of 65 with my husband who retired 2 years prior to my retirement. We move into the home of one of our children to torment him/her for the rest of his/her life. I die in 2089 at the age of 100 during a mishap in a skydiving accident.