Chapter Objectives

After reading the chapter, you should be able to:

1.

understand the criteria by which men judge whether they have successfully fulfilled their role as provider for the family, the conflicts that many men experience in fulfilling both work and family roles, and the effects on family members of the father's participation in child care.

2.

understand basic facts about the employment and careers of married women: their search for life satisfaction, the family members' ethics and value systems, the role conflict and strain they experience, change in marital satisfaction, and the marital adjustments they face.

3.

describe basic facts about dual-career families as compared to dual-earner families:

the types of women and men who are in such families
benefits
issues of potential conflict, including moving, traveling for their job, child care, household responsibilities and scheduling, and identity and competitiveness
the quality of marriage.

4.

understand the basic facts about money and the family: the financial needs of families, the relationship between money and marital satisfaction, and money management as a source of harmony or discord.

5.

describe effects of poverty on family life

6.

explain the concept of the feminization of poverty.

7.

describe how the welfare program has changed and discuss the advantages or disadvantages these changes may bring

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