Definitions for "Family Life Cycle"
The stages of family life based on demographic data that are useful in defining the markets for certain goods and services. Each group has its own specific and distinguishable needs and interests.
A series of changes undergone by a family over time (e.g., a couple; a family with preschoolers, with school-age children, with adolescents, and in the launching years; an empty nest couple; a retired couple).
Describes how a traditional family evolves from bachelorhood to children to solitary retirement.
A sociological concept that describes changes in families across time, emphasizing effects of marriage, divorce, births and deaths on families and changes in income.