Your Children’s Friends
458
Lying
459
Developing Responsibility
459
Children and Money
460
After-School Child Care
461
Children in Self-Care
461
Employment Practices and Trends That
Support Families
476
Flexible Work Schedules
477
Employee Benefi ts
478
Family and Medical Leave Act
479
Realities of the Workplace
480
Techniques for Managing Family and
Work
481
Getting Organized
481
Did You Know? Sharing Household
Chores: What’s Fair?
483
Communicating
484
Spending Quality Time
484
Teen Focus: Using Technology for
Managing Family and Work
485
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Dealing with Family
Crises
491
Resources to Help Withstand Crises
493
Mental Resources
493
Physical Health
493
Financial Resources
494
Family Relationships
494
Support of Friends
495
Community Resources
495
Coping with Crises
498
Recognize the Existence of a
Crisis
498
Seek Alternative Solutions to the
Crisis
498
Look to Each Other for
Support
499
Resume Efforts to Achieve
Personal and Family Goals
499
Types of Crises
500
Loss of Job
500
Relocation
501
Contents
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Part VI
Families Face Change
18
Balancing Family and
Work Concerns
469
Why Work?
470
Types of Work and Family
Arrangements
470
Dual-Career Families
470
Families with Part-Time
Workers
471
Families with Full-Time
Homemakers
471
Single-Parent Families
472
Patterns of Work and Child Bearing
473
Impact of Work and Family Life on Each
Other
474
Effects of Employment on Family
Life
474
Effects of Family Life on
Employment
475