Family Stages / Circle
Definition of family
According to Binokritis, family consist of two or more individual in a close environment, staying together with a committed relationship, sharing the family functioning and have a family bind with emotions.
In a meanwhile, Goldenberg define family as social system that have some characteristic, create a set of rule, family functioning, power structure, way of communication and discussion to solve problems and make the family function well.
Most people said that, family were a group of people staying together that consist of parents, children or grandparents that had related by birth, marriage or adoption. All of them do their family functioning and always being connected among each other. There were many types of family such as dual family, career family and multifamily.
Families are shaped by people who share a history and a future together. From this time perspective families are living systems moving through time. With the contemporary family pulsing with plural, multicultural patterns there are not one set course or normative sequence by which families develop overtime.
Moreover, according to Monica McGoldrick and Betty Carter in their respected work on the family life cycle, they both also describe that family life cycle is like an underlying processes to be negotiated by “the expansion, contraction, and realignment of the relationship system to support the entry, exit, and development of family members in a functional way”. Then, the definition of major life-cycle transitions are marked by fundamental changes in the family system itself (second order changes) rather than rearrangements within the system (first order changes).
Family Life Cycle
McGoldrick and Carter also have designed a classification of critical, fundamental family life-cycle stages of American middle-class families in the beginning of the 21st century. There were table lists six stages and classification in family life cycle: 1. Leaving home: single
According to Binokritis, family consist of two or more individual in a close environment, staying together with a committed relationship, sharing the family functioning and have a family bind with emotions.
In a meanwhile, Goldenberg define family as social system that have some characteristic, create a set of rule, family functioning, power structure, way of communication and discussion to solve problems and make the family function well.
Most people said that, family were a group of people staying together that consist of parents, children or grandparents that had related by birth, marriage or adoption. All of them do their family functioning and always being connected among each other. There were many types of family such as dual family, career family and multifamily.
Families are shaped by people who share a history and a future together. From this time perspective families are living systems moving through time. With the contemporary family pulsing with plural, multicultural patterns there are not one set course or normative sequence by which families develop overtime.
Moreover, according to Monica McGoldrick and Betty Carter in their respected work on the family life cycle, they both also describe that family life cycle is like an underlying processes to be negotiated by “the expansion, contraction, and realignment of the relationship system to support the entry, exit, and development of family members in a functional way”. Then, the definition of major life-cycle transitions are marked by fundamental changes in the family system itself (second order changes) rather than rearrangements within the system (first order changes).
Family Life Cycle
McGoldrick and Carter also have designed a classification of critical, fundamental family life-cycle stages of American middle-class families in the beginning of the 21st century. There were table lists six stages and classification in family life cycle: 1. Leaving home: single