The Dual-Career Couple: Constraints and Supports
The Family CoordinatorPublished 1 July 1978
Jane C. Hopkins, Priscilla White
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The dual-career family is an emergent family form in our society that offers new sources of satisfaction. A t the same time, the dual-career life-style also presents new types of problems for families. This articles is an attempt to sensitize family practitioners to some of the problematic aspects of the dual-career life-style. Suggestions are made for strategies practitioners can use to assist dual-career families in coping effectively with the constraints and problems of their life-style.
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Social SciencesBusiness, Management and Accounting
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