Life Course Perspective Analysis

The three themes of the life course perspective include, relationships, events, and experiences of early life have consequences. To start with the description of these themes we see experiences and that our physical and mental health is closely related to the advantages and disadvantages we had in early childhood. People who begin life with a social advantage generally are better positioned to succeed later in life, and people with adversities early in life are often blocked from opportunities that allow them to have a happy and healthy life leading into their old age. Also researchers have found that childhood experiences such as parental death, parental divorce, child abuse victimization, poverty, and living in an unsafe neighborhood, have