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This 9 page paper discusses three specific issues: how the family has changed and how this may affect career development; the function and services of the placement office and how this has changed over the years, including the services that they provide; and the changing workplace and the core competencies employees need to have today. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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than ever before. Typically, that one parent is a mother with significantly less earning power than the absent father. When there are two parents at home, most often, both parents
work. This leaves children in the care of others or, in some cases, going home to empty homes without supervision of any kind. Other changes in the family structure
involve what is called the non-traditional family. Never married women who have chosen to have a child. Gay couples having children through adoption or by having their own child. Children
being raised by step-parents, sometimes a series of step-parents, called blended families. Families are smaller today with couples choosing to have fewer children. And, unlike decades ago, many families
are scattered across the states leaving parents without the physical support of extended family members to help raise the children. Blundo reported these data, comparing 1900 to 1999: * In
1900, the average household was comprised of 4.76 people compared to 2.64 in 1999 (Blundo, 1999). * Divorce rates were lower, 0.7 per 1,000 marriages compared to 4.3, but that
rate has jumped to 50 percent (Blundo, 1999). * In 1900, only 8.5 percent of children lived in single-parent homes compared to 28 percent in 1999 but that number has
also jumped to more than one-third of children today (Blundo, 1999). * Women married younger. The average age was 21.1 years compared to 24 but that age has also increased
according to news reports (Blundo, 1999). These data do not include the fact that tens of thousands of couples have at least one parent traveling as much as two
hours each way to work. Up until at least the mid-1960s, more mothers stayed at home taking care of children and home than worked. Families ate dinner together and
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