The Balancing Act: Juggling Family Life and Work

Couples today struggle to find a balance between work, family, and their marital relationship. Often it is difficult to keep stress from one environment from spilling over into the other environment. As a result of the complex work-family issues, couples experience a variety if types of role conflict.

Discuss the four types of inter-role conflict couples experience.

Discuss the benefits and limitations of one parent staying at home.

Discuss how couples can achieve balance at home with housework and childcare when both are working.

You must justify your positions using current scholarly, peer-reviewed research.

Please be sure your paper is at least 1200 words, 12 point Times New Roman font, double-spaced, with a 1 inch margins on all sides.

Please use APA format for citations and references

Please include a cover page that adheres to the following required format:

Name

Title

All papers must have a minimum of three (3) different acceptable academic sources. All citations must have been published within the last 10 years. Only the following are considered acceptable academic sources:

Peer-reviewed journal articles

The text books for this class

U.S. Government publications