This article is devoted to the
study and make up for the
content of concept of the family life cycle. Various points of view of
our and
foreign authors are observed on possibilities to concretize and
cultivate the
comprehension of this notion. The demographic, social and economic
lines of
development of the family life cycle are considered separately but
taking into
account the interconnections between them. The consumption and saving
behavior
of the family and the individual are examined in terms of the marginal
utility
theory. As an empirical material the results of the longitudinal
research of
households of Taganrog city, conducted by ISEPN RAN, were used in which
the
authors of this article were taking part.
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