The Real and Contradicting Family Cycle

One concept that really caught my attention was The Family Life Cycle brought to us by Olson and McCubbin. I believe that this concept should have been renamed "The Ideal Family Life Cycle" because in today's generation the family cycles I've witnessed have counteracted with this one and I think it's almost sad.  Most young couples in particular skip the first stage and go straight to the second, not out of love but more of a lust. Many girls I know feel like having someone's baby would keep that man around forever but as soon as the baby takes the first breath, that's when denial and accusation walk into the room. Stage 3 is a challenge because the single-parent home rate is so high, the parent doesn't get much time to develop as strong as of a family as two parents do. Stages 4-6, I will just ay children are a reflection of their parents, if the parents don't care, the children could possible acquire that down the line and it could really hurt their future. I do like the guidelines the author gives us -they seem accurate. But now the technology is starting to innovate, who may now what it could start doing to families, I'm starting to see the early signs now.