Stage 6 of the family life cycle involves which focus?

• A. adjust family relationships to include midlife relationships and career issues
• B. include grandparent roles
• C. launching children
• D. later life coping with decline

Answer: (A)

Stage six centers on midlife transitions, with the family reconfiguring relationships as children become more independent and parents face new responsibilities and choices. The key focus is how the couple renegotiates their partnership and handles midlife tasks, including career changes, finances, and balancing work and family as the family evolves. While launching children is a part of this stage, the emphasis is on adjusting the adult parent relationship and managing midlife issues, rather than on grandparent roles or later-life decline, which are addressed in later stages.