Title: Analyze potential effects of career path decisions on balancing work and family throughout the family life cycle.
Course: Life Planning (19257-36) > Section: Developing Career, Community, and Life Connections

Analysis should include

- stages of the family life cycle
- ways in which each stage influences career choices, involvement, and the balancing of personal and career responsibilities.

Process/Skill Questions:

Thinking

- Why is it important to understand the relationships between stages of the family life cycle and career decisions?
- What would happen if the stages of the family life cycle dictated career involvement? For example, what would happen if all women who had children under age 5 were forbidden to work outside the home?

Communication

- Do different stages of the family life cycle call for different communication skills? Why or why not?
- What communication skills can help you evaluate interrelationships between the family life cycle and career patterns?
- How would being in a particular stage of the family life cycle influence time spent at work and time spent with family?

Leadership

- How would being in a particular stage of the family life cycle influence your opportunities for advancement in the workplace?
- What leadership skills can help you analyze the career implications of various stages of the family life cycle?
- Which stage of the family life cycle often poses the most difficulty with balancing personal and career responsibilities?

Management

- How would being in a particular stage of the family life cycle influence the number of responsibilities at work? At home?
- What changes in family life cycle stage will most likely influence your career patterns in the next five years? Ten years?
- What steps can you take to prepare for changes in career patterns?