Family life cycle and family therapy: an overview / Elizabeth A. Carter and Monica McGoldrick -- Toward a theory of the family life cycle / Kenneth G. Terkelsen -- Family life cycle and discontinuous change / Lynn Hoffman -- Between families: the unattached young adult / Patricia H. Meyer -- Joining of families through marriage: the new couple / Monica McGoldrick -- Family with young children / Jack O. Bradt -- Family with adolescents / Norman J. Ackerman -- Launching children and moving on / Paulina McCullough -- Family in later life / Froma Walsh -- Impact of death and serious illness on the family life cycle / Fredda Herz -- Separation, divorce, and single-parent families / Edward W. Beal -- Forming a remarried family / Monica McGoldrick and Elizabeth A. Carter -- Women in families / Nora Reiner Gluck, Elaine Dannefer and Kathryn Milea -- Family life cycle issues in the therapy system / Robert M. Simon -- Family life cycle of the multiproblem poor family / Fernando Colón -- Cultural variations in the family life cycle: the Mexican-American family / Celia J. Falicov and Betty M. Karrer -- Systems and ceremonies: a family view of rites of passage / Edwin H. Friedman