PRESENTATION TOPIC:
DECISION MAKING( FAMILY
CIRCLE,SIZE,
COMPOSITION)
PRESENTED BY: ALINA
ASSIGNED BY: MA’AM HINA

1. DECISION MAKING
 DEFINITION: Decision making concept
involves defining the problem ,finding ,
comparing and choosing a course of action.
 Decision making is a process of selecting
one course of action from a number of
possible alternative in solving a problem or in
meeting a situation.

DECISION MAKING RELATED TO MANAGEMENT
 The concept of decision making is considered
by some to be synonymous with management ,
because at the moment of choice , the image of
the decision maker and manager have much in
common.
 The conceptual framework of the management
process involves decision-making.
 Decision making is important in home
management , because it is the way we make
things happen instead of just letting them
happen.

 Decision making forms the central activity pattern or
core of the management process as
resources(means) are used to attain goals(ends) in
living day by day , year by year , and for a lifetime.

FAMILY LIFE CYCLE

• Each family passes through a cycle
that begins with the marriage of two
young persons , grows with the
coming of children , and then again
becomes a home of two persons.
• A view of the family’s life cycle,
from its beginning to its end ,
assuming there are no breaks.
• In the earlier stages , family
demands often compete with
personal desires of the adults, and
thus cause conflicts or frustrations.

ANALYSIS OF THE FAMILY LIFE CYCLE
 The family life cycle may be divided into three
major stages , usually called the beginning
family, the expanding family and the
contracting family.
1. THE BEGINNING FAMILY :The first sub
stage of the family life cycle is the period of
establishment .It begins with marriage and
continues until the first child is born.
This stage is also one of adjustment, The
kind of relationship that the husband and wife
establish at this time will in large measures,
determine the quality of her future relations.

THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL:

STAGE 2 : THE EXPANDING FAMILY
 The expanding family covers a longer period
than the beginning family and includes a
number of substages .It begins with the birth
of the first child and ends when the last child
leaves home. During the child bearing and
preschool stage ,parents find it necessary to
make adjustments in their relations to each
other and to their children as new ones
arrive.

ELEMENTARY STAGE

a) THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL:
 This period begins a series of overlapping
experiences that covers the time when the
children are about 6 to 12 years of age.
 During this period , parents are primarily
concerned with the educational and health
needs of the children , wit establishing an
environment in which the children will have a
feeling of belonging , with providing nutritious
food , suitable clothing and adequate
housing for personal development as well as
social and community contacts outside the

THE HIGH SCHOOL:
 This period in the family cycle includes the
time when the children are 12 to 18 years of
age, the teen age period .

 The parents are now occupied with helping the
children through high school, vocational , or
trade school , and assisting them in solving
their personality
 Social and vocational problems , to aid them
in becoming independent and self-reliant
individual.

 STAGE 3: THE CONTRACTING FAMILY
 The period of vocational adjustment
sometime called the launching period ,.
 It is the period of uncertainty and adjustment
for both parents and children . The family
circle is now widened to include new
relatives through marriage as well as
grandchildren.

FAMILY COMPOSITION:
 The problems of who makes the decision, in
the family , who has the largest share in the
process . The husband and wife's , the kinds of
decision made, and how pattern of decision
making change throughout the stages in the
family life cycle have been investigated .

 Survey showed that both husband and wife
participated and that they made purchases
together another survey showed that home
improvements handling the money and bills
and saving and joint responsibility of
husband and wife was shown no more than
54 percent of the wife usually bought the
groceries .

 The findings give some support to the idea that
men and women have areas in which they are
more apt to be concerned , for example father
and sons are apt to be more concerned with the
families car and mother and daughters with the
entertainment of guests .

 Women appeared to be the most active in home
management and men in money management.
Women supported that they become more emotionally
involved in decision making decision than men

 FAMILY SIZE:
A fundamental social group in society typically
consisting of one or two parents and their
children.
 DECISION MAKING IN RELATION TO
FAMILY SIZE:
 The percentage of families with small children
where the father works and the mother stays
home has been steady or creeping slightly
higher.
 Decision making is essential to maintaining and
improving life condition, including home design.
 Values guides decision. Values also influence
decision makes because they realize that the

 The main difference between personal and
family decision making is that the lateral is more
complex.
 The more people involved in decision making,
the more complex the decision process is likely
to be.
 In a simple situation, only one family member is
involved in making a decision, and everyone
else simply accepts whatever that person
decides.
 In more complex situation, each family member
may suggest a different course of action.
 Individuals who live together have to decide on