Family Life Cycle Quiz

At which stage of the family life cycle does the married couple establish their home but does not yet have children?

• Beginning Family

• Childbearing family

• Launching family

• Aging family

At which substage does the oldest child leaves the family for independent adult life until the time the last child leaves?

• Launching

• Aging

• Empty Nest

• Beginning

Which stage is known as the getting acquainted stage

• Expanding

• Contracting

• Beginning

• Retirement

This substage includes children from birth to or until that child is 2 1/2?

• Empty nest

• Launching

• Childbearing/ pre-school

• Beginning

With the birth of children there is a demand on

• Time

• Finances

• Energy

• All of these are demands at this time

The greatest demand on income is during the

• Beginning Stage

• Expanding Stage

• Contracting Stage

The contracting stage sometimes overlap with the expanding stage

• True

• False

This longest stage is the

• Beginning stage

• Expanding stage

• Contracting stage

The older couple now takes on interest they once had

• Contracting stage

• Expanding Stage

• Beginning stage

The couple during the contracting stage

• May become grandparents

• May develop certain difficulties e.g. physical problems

• Assist their children

• All of these