Child development

Family cycles

- PROCREATION

• Continue the species

• Biological urge to reproduce.

SOCIALIZATION

• support introduction into society

• Teaches rules of behavior

Establish patterns of interaction

EMOTIONAL SUPPORT

• Provides members with love

• Demonstrates positive self-image and confidence.

ECONOMIC SUPPORT

• Provide the members with the necessities to live.

Establishes dependency

LEAVING HOME- INDEPENDENCE

The children of a family leave to begin their own independent lives

MARRIAGE

• Establishing a new family by way of marriage.

Joins two lives to begin a newly functioning family.

Parenting

• Child Bearing Family

  • 0-2 1/2 years old

• Family with Preschoolers

  • 2 ½ - 6 years old

• Family with School Children

  • 6 – 13 years old

• Parenting Adolescents

  • 14 – 20 years old

 LAUNCHING CENTER

• Children leave the home to begin their own lives

• Period of transition as some children are still home and others are not.

EMPTY NEST

• All children have left the home and the couple is once again alone in the home.

RETIREMENT

• Adults are no longer working and live without children

There is now time to explore and enjoy friends and family and the next generation.

NUCLEAR FAMILY

Two parents and their biological children.

SINGLE-PARENT FAMILIES

One main caretaker of children.

CROSS-GENERATIONAL FAMILIES

• Families with children under age 18 who have a family member age 65 or older living with them.

ADOPTIVE/FOSTER FAMILIES

• Families with children that are adopted 

• Open/Closed

Children living in a temporary foster home

NEVER-MARRIED FAMILIES

• Unmarried couples have at least one child

BLENDED FAMILIES

• Families with one or both parents having children prior to this relationship.

• Step-Parents/Siblings

GRANDPARENTS AS PARENTS

• Children under age 18 live with their grandparents as their main caretaker.

SAME-SEX PARENT FAMILIES

• Children have parents who are gay, lesbian or bisexual.