The expanded family life cycle : Individual, family, and social perspectives

Overview : the life cycle in its changing context : individual, family and social perspectives Self in context : human development and the individual life cycle in systemic perspective Women and the family life cycle Men and the life cycle : diversity and complexity Social class and the life cycle The life cycle of African American families living in poverty Sexuality and the life cycle Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals and the family life cycle Spirituality and the family life cycle Siblings and the life cycle Single adults and the life cycle Becoming an adult : finding ways to love and work Becoming a couple Becoming parents : the family with young children Transformation of the family system during adolescence Families at midlife : launching children and moving on Divorce : an unscheduled family transition Single-parent families : strengths, vulnerabilities, and interventions Families transformed by the divorce cycle : reconstituted, multinuclear, recoupled, and remarried families Migration and the life cycle Alcohol problems and the life cycle Psychiatric illness and the life cycle Creating meaningful rituals for new life cycle transitions The therapist and the family : the intersection of life cycles