Types of Family Goals and Standards
<h1><strong>FAMILY GOALS AND STANDARDS</strong></h1> CONTENT <ol> <li>Types of Family Goals</li> <li>Types of Family Standards</li> <li>Relationship Among Family Needs, Goals and Standards</li> <li>Uses of Family Needs, Goals and Standards in Resource Management</li> </ol> <h2><strong>Types of Family Goals</strong></h2> Family goals can be classified according to the time needed to achieve them as follows: <ol> <li><strong>Long-term goals:</strong> These are big family goals which take a very long period of time to achieve, e.g. building a house, buying a car, saving money for retirement, having healthy children, and providing good education for the children. These long-term goals influence the other types of goals set by the family.</li> <li><strong>Short-term or intermediate goals:</strong> These are goals set up as means of achieving the long-term goals. They take less time to achieve than the long-term goals. For instance, the regular provision of three balanced meal each day for the children could be a short-term goal towards meeting the long-term goal of raising healthy children.</li>