Focus & Scope Assumptions
These are the assumptions that provide the foundation for Family Life Course Development Theory.
1. Developmental processes are inevitable and important in understanding families.
- Individual family members, Interaction between family members, Structure of family, and The norms composing expectations about family roles all change over time. These changing roles and expectations for different stages of family are viewed as essential to an understanding of the family.
2. The family group is affected by all the levels of analysis.
Social system (Institutional norms and conventions about the family) e.g. legal expectations like