FAMILY GOALS AND STANDARDS

CONTENT

1. Types of Family Goals
2. Types of Family Standards
3. Relationship Among Family Needs, Goals and Standards
4. Uses of Family Needs, Goals and Standards in Resource Management

Types of Family Goals

Family goals can be classified according to the time needed to achieve them as follows:

1. Long-term goals: 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.
2. Short-term or intermediate goals: 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.