Since the marriage formed while a married couple during their later life is a series of stages that are of considerable social and demographic significance. At first the couple have children. They grow up, marry, and either remain in the parental home, or leave it. In the end, one spouse dies and the couple ceases to exist. By this time her children were in most cases already formed their own families and start again, with certain differences, the passage of the same stages of family life. Thus, the process, ending in the family, begins in the filial (child) and thus becomes a recurring character.
Each step corresponds to a particular state, the specific value of the family, or that the conditions of its existence. On each of these families have different requirements to the public and to varying degrees, participate in social production and social life. Develops differently at different stages of life and the family itself. "Every child is born next, - writes V. Roubichek - brings the family not only increase its size by one person, but also a major reorganization of family life, which manifests itself in the extent and pattern of consumption of the family, as well as to increase its potential needs . Consequently, we can say that none of the children of the same parents born in the same family situation ".
Discussion
At the same time as the development of the family is changing its structure, the nature of relations between its members. According to AV Baranov, people live life in three families - the primary, in which he was reared secondary, which he created himself, and tertiary, continuing after his children created their own family . Leningrad researcher identified three periods of stable development of the family corresponding to these three forms of the family, noting that the transition from one form to another family, the transformation of the states in which there is a family, make certain periods of instability.
Sequence essential for social and demographic relationships of states in which there is a family from its inception until it ceases to exist, is called the cycle of family or the family life cycle. It is sometimes said about the human life cycle, considering the sequence of certain events in his life. EK Vasil'eva believes, for example, "life cycle analysis of human learning which involves taking into account the number of family characteristics," a special area of socio-demographic study.
However, if you understand the cycle as a periodic repetition of the same name some events, the individual in relation to this concept is meaningless, even if we mean "statistical man", ie the set of individuals. After all, people live life once, and any demographic event in her unique (as it cannot be repeated, for example, the first marriage or the birth of her second child).
The concept of the loop with regard to family life (or rather, a married couple) is more appropriate, because the children are married, as a rule, during the life of the parents and, ...