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    Early adulthood from ages 20-40 is focused on developing intimate relationships through marriage and children. Career decisions are also made which impact socioeconomic status and lifestyle factors. Middle adulthood from 40-65 involves generativity like caring for family and future generations as well as adjusting to physiological and family changes such as menopause and aging parents. Midlife around 40-50 can prompt some to feel a need to achieve goals more quickly due to recognizing mortality.

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    Early Adulthood

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    Early adulthood from ages 20-40 is focused on developing intimate relationships through marriage and children. Career decisions are also made which impact socioeconomic status and lifestyle factors. Middle adulthood from 40-65 involves generativity like caring for family and future generations as well as adjusting to physiological and family changes such as menopause and aging parents. Midlife around 40-50 can prompt some to feel a need to achieve goals more quickly due to recognizing mortality.

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    EARLY ADULTHOOD

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    Early adulthood from ages 20-40 is focused on developing intimate relationships through marriage and children. Career decisions are also made which impact socioeconomic status and lifestyle factors. Middle adulthood from 40-65 involves generativity like caring for family and future generations as well as adjusting to physiological and family changes such as menopause and aging parents. Midlife around 40-50 can prompt some to feel a need to achieve goals more quickly due to recognizing mortality.

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    Adulthood has no signpost to announce its onset (as adolescence longevity, so are achievement, recognition, satisfaction,

    is announced by puberty). In technologically advanced nations, security, and challenge. In the modern cultures of many
    the life span is more than 70 years. Developmental psychologists nations, the careers of both spouses and partners frequently
    usually consider early adulthood to cover approximately age 20 must be considered in making job choices.
    to age 40 and middle adulthood approximately 40 to 65.
    Middle adulthood. In middle adulthood, an important challenge
    Early adulthood. In early adulthood, an individual is concerned is to develop a genuine concern for the welfare of future
    with developing the ability to share intimacy, seeking to form generations and to contribute to the world through family and
    relationships and find intimate love. Long‐term relationships are work. Erik Erikson refers to the problem posed at this stage
    formed, and often marriage and children result. The young adult as generativity vs. self‐absorption.
    is also faced with career decisions.
    Robert Havighurst lists seven major tasks in the middle years.
     Choices concerning marriage and family are often made
    during this period. Research shows that divorce is more likely  accepting and adjusting to physiological changes, such as
    among people who marry during adolescence, those menopause
    whose parents were divorced, and those who are dissimilar  reaching and maintaining satisfaction in one's occupation
    in age, intelligence, personality, or attractiveness.  adjusting to and possibly caring for aging parents
    Separation is also more frequent among those who do not  helping teenage children to become responsible adults
    have children. Most people who have divorced remarry;  achieving adult social and civic responsibility
    consequently, children may experience more than one set  relating to one's spouse as a person
    of parents.  developing leisure‐time activities
     Such alternatives to marriage as “living together”
    (cohabitation) have become more common. In 1997, the While a midlife crisis is not regarded as a universal phenomenon,
    Census Bureau estimated that 4.13 million unwed couples during one's 40s and 50s comes the recognition that more than
    lived in the United States. half of one's life is gone. That recognition may prompt some to feel
     Work/career choice affects not only socioeconomic status that the clock is ticking and that they must make sudden, drastic
    but also friends, political values, residence location, child changes in order to achieve their goals, while others focus on
    care, job stress, and many other aspects of life. And while finding satisfaction with the present course of their lives.
    income is important in both career selection and career

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