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Discuss research into the impact of life events in adulthood.
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Discuss research into the impact of life events in adulthood There are three key events affecting many adults: marriage, parenthood and divorce. Marriage fulfils basic needs for companionship and security. It is an overt sign of adult status and provides a legitimate unit to raise children. Through time initial passionate love may deepen into a more profound secure attachment that can withstand time and all the obstacles of life, including the inevitable rough patches. Bee studied marriages and formed a theory called the U shaped curve. This suggests that satisfaction in marital relationships decline after marriage, reach a low when children go to school, then rise to a peak at retirement. The problem with this research, (apart from the value judgement of what is a satisfactory marriage), is that the findings were based on a cross cultural study and when unsatisfactory marriages were finished and lost from the samples then the marriages...
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