It was hypothesized that four different "life lines" would affect sex role orientations, specifically intimacy, parenting, grandparenting, and work. Subjects were 74 men and 43 women, white, upper middle class with a mean education level of 14 years. Each participant completed a demographic questionnaire, the Bem Sex Role Inventory, a Life Events scale, and the Retirement Descriptive Index. Results indicated that: (1) age per se did not affect sex role orientation except that females over 45 were more likely to endorse a feminine sex role; (2) married or never-married males were were less androgynous than those divorced, separated, or widowed, with the opposite pattern true for females; (3) having children led to males endorsing a feminine sex role less and females endorsing a feminine sex role more; and (4) life satisfaction correlated with two of the sex role variables, masculinity and androgyny. (Author/HLM)