1. CAREER OPTIONS AND FAMILY ROLES Enrique is a new father. He plans to move his business into the home using telecommuting via computer for the next few years until his new son goes to school. The new mother, Anna, will return to her sales job when the baby is three months old. Case Studies Copyright © Notice: The materials are copyrighted © and trademarked ™ as the property of The Curriculum Center for Family and Consumer Sciences, Texas Tech University.

2. CAREER OPTIONS AND FAMILY ROLES Tera’s eighty-two-year-old mother can no longer safely live alone in her own home. Tera, who is divorced and a teacher, has considered moving in with her mother, even though she would not be there to supervise her mother during school days. Copyright © Notice: The materials are copyrighted © and trademarked ™ as the property of The Curriculum Center for Family and Consumer Sciences, Texas Tech University.

3. CAREER OPTIONS AND FAMILY ROLES Carolina and Deven are parents of three children ages eight, eleven, and fourteen. Both parents work outside the home. Deven is a supervisor at a pump manufacturing plant, and Copyright © Notice: The materials are copyrighted © and trademarked ™ as the property of The Curriculum Center for Family and Consumer Sciences, Texas Tech University. Carolina is an administrator at an elder services facility. The children report to a neighbor’s home after school, but the fourteen-year-old son has been asking his parents to let him come home after school and has even promised to supervise his younger brother and sister.