The family development theory talks about the stages of life that we all experience; married couple, childbearing, preschool age, school age, teenage, launching center, middle aged parents, and aging family members. I chose the images from the two Father of the Bride movies because I believe that these movies perfectly show this theory in action. The first Father of the Bride deals with Steve Martin's character dealing with the idea that his daughter is going to be getting married, Launching Center and Middle aged parent stages. Throughout the movie the father is reminiscing on when his daughter was younger and now has difficulty accepting that his daughter is moving on and leaving the home to be married. Eventually he becomes comfortable with the launching center and moves into middle aged parents where he enjoys time with his wife. In Father of the Bride II we are introduced to the father now coping with becoming a grandfather, aging family members. Like when his daughter was moving on and getting married he struggled with moving into the next stage of his life.
I really enjoyed these two movies and feel like they are good examples of how a nuclear family goes through the life cycle and the transitions between the stages. The movies do a good job of bringing a good balance of comedic relief to the idea of family development but also shows what I believe to be a very realistic picture of the difficulties that can happen when transitioning to new stages. I speak from experience, because when I got married and new I was leaving my parents home for good it was difficult both for me and my mom.
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