Infinite Limits

Analogy of Multiplicity

          The emotional and intellectual stages you pass through from childhood to your retirement years as a member of a family is called the family life cycle. In each stage, you face challenges in your family life that cause you to develop or gain new skills. Developing these skills helps you work through the changes that nearly every family goes through. Just like any life cycle, the one with your family will infinitely continue with each generation to come. You are shaped by the generations before you in your family unit continually, and the family cycle has no limitation. There are five stages to the family life cycle: independence, marriage, parenting with adolescents, launching adult children, and senior years. Each stage represents a new part in one’s life that is important as well as exciting.

          Each stage in the family cycle of life is important to growth and development. This analogy is comparative to multiplicity because the process of the on-going cycle is endless. Each generation continues to learn from the previous, and no matter how complex the family may get, it becomes a “system of systems” discussed formerly.