Dual Career Family Issues and Implications for Counseling

Abstract

The paper discuss about the impact f dual-couple family issues and implications on the family life. It also highlights the role of councilor in dealing with the problem that these couples are facing. There has been a growing need among researchers to identify how family roles have changed over the past few decades. The kinds of information that researchers have been looking for has changed as the modern family evolved throughout the second half of the last century. Dual-career families require much understanding of both spouses, means a psychological commitment to both family relationships and for individual careers. The career success of each of the spouses depends partly on the support of each other, the other's actions, promoting mutual investment in the outcome of partner. Although the impact of work schedules and family duties has been extensively studied from both sides, no study has considered the same time using a multidimensional measure of participation in family duties. Thus, the counselor needs to be aware of the current pessimism and needs to be certain that they are not harboring the same preconceived notions. The counselor needs to get them self prepared how to train such families, they need to develop the working and therapeutic knowledge of the experiences, difficulties and challenges encountered by these couples.

Table of Content

Abstract2

Dual Career Family Issues and Implications for Counseling4

Introduction4

Discussion and Analysis4

Facts and figure5

Organization's Responsibility6

Problem statement7

Analytical Approach7

Marital Typologies8

The Impact of Dual-Couple on Child Development8

Parenting9

Demographic and Sociological Changes9

Effects of children9

Responsibilities of family life and career10

Challenges to be faced11

Implications12

Analysis and Counseling12

Implications for Counseling13

The Dual-Career Couples and Joint Private Life14

Study Objective15

Effectiveness15

Counseling Process16

Approach16

Conclusion19

References20

Dual Career Family Issues and Implications for Counseling

Introduction

The idea of a family in which both parents are employed full-time was originally met with both excitement and a certain amount of skepticism. Theoretically, dual-career family life should be improvement on a family model in which only the father has a career because it would free parents from traditional (and often constraining) gender roles.

And this system has been successful, to some degree. Today, women are just as likely as men to have a college education, and most married women with children under six are employed. The average working woman also contributes 40% of her family's annual household income, and increasing numbers of women are beginning to see their work in professional fields as part of their identities (Rosen & Prestwich, 2008)

There has been a growing need among researchers to identify how family roles have changed over the past few decades. The kinds of information that researchers have been looking for has changed as the modern family evolved throughout the second half of the last century. The research questions transitioned from women's ability to change roles in their family to the need for both parents to adjust their perspectives on duties, and now researchers investigate the dual-career family with a much broader lens, which includes the context of societal practices.

Discussion and Analysis

The dual-career families are characterized by two-income family and both spouses have ...