SMITH MINI CASE: Nathan Smith is single and lives in Detroit, where he works on the assembly line at the local automobile manufacturing plant and is a member of the Automobile Workers Union. He views work as a means to buy things to enhance his leisure time and recently purchased a new television so that he could better watch his favorite team, the Detroit Lions, play football. Nathan has always followed the Lions, largely because his dad was a big Lions fan.
-In the SMITH MINI CASE, Nathan is most likely considered to be in the ________ stage of the traditional family life cycle.
A) bachelorhood
B) honeymooner
C) parenthood
D) postparenthood
E) dissolution

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Nathan is single and his lifestyle choices, such as purchasing a television for leisure, indicate he is in the bachelorhood stage of the traditional family life cycle, where individuals are not yet married or have children.

SMITH MINI CASE: Nathan Smith Is Single and Lives in Detroit