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The Social Clock Analysis

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Berk (2014), stated that the social clock starts ticking in early adulthood, which coincide with age-graded influences and family life cycle (p. 471). I can’t explain it, but I and some of my friends got pregnant around the same time. I believe it is true about the age-graded influences. After high school, I went to college. When I was in college, I got pregnant and had to drop out of college because I was so sick, and because of my sickness, my doctor wanted to put me in the hospital, due to I was losing so much weight. I got pregnant at age 18 and had my first child at age 19. Leslie is his name. A year later I married my son father. The following year, an amazing and awesome thing happens. I gave my life to Jesus Christ, and I became

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