Family Life mee NOTES - While their careers may also be important, most young adult women, according to statistics, focus more on their familles. Whatever changes may have occured in our souety, Itis still true that most women are distressed by the prospect of reaching the age of 30 unmarried (Kaslow, (992). In a mariage, women take care of more family obligations than men do, and they make more personal adjustments to the needs of their husbands than vice versa. Women do most of the child care os well (Denmark, 1992). Young woman today face contlicts and stressors that simply didnot exist a few decades ago. Because most married women work outside the home, they are often torn between their obligations to their jobs and their obligations to their families COzer, 1995; MC WIl- (lams. 1992). So, where is the man all this time? Well, hers doing more than men formerly did. In early adulthood, men still tend to focus mostly on their careers, but they are also more involved in their family nues than used to be the case. They spend more time with their children and ase less likely to always let the job come first. For instance, a few years ago, it would have been almost unthinkable for a man to ask for special concideration at work in order to take care of a fairly routine family matter Now sucharequest is not unusual. lest we ger too carried away, though, the changes have not been grear.