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Intimate Relationships, Marriages, and Families Cover Image
Intimate Relationships, Marriages, and Families, 5/e
Mary K. DeGenova
Philip F. Rice
Marital Relationships Over the Family Life Cycle

Chapter Objectives

After reading the chapter, you should be able to:

1.

understand the basic stages of the family life cycle in an intact marriage and in a family where there is divorce and remarriage.

2.

describe the various trends in marital satisfaction from the honeymoon stage to late adulthood.

3.

summarize the major marital adjustment tasks and problems early in marriage.

4.

describe how gay and lesbian families are different from and similar to other types of families.

5.

describe the adjustments to parenthood.

6.

discuss the major adjustments during middle adulthood, including the postparental years.

7.

summarize the major adjustments during late adulthood, including divorce.

8.

discuss problems of family relationships of the elderly as well as of widowhood, including alternatives for caring for the elderly.








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