Contemporary Living, 12th Edition

Contemporary Living explores the issues facing students and provides the information needed to make wise decisions. The text addresses topics such as personal development, relationships with family and friends, career options, healthful living, relating to peers, dealing with family crises, and managing family living. Students gain critical-thinking skills while they learn about alternatives to different situations so they can make the best choices for themselves.

• Math, technology, and other academic skills are developed through included activities.
• Career features throughout the book are linked back to the appropriate career cluster.
• FCCLA activities are found at the end of every chapter, linking text content to organizational projects and events.

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Contemporary Living explores the issues facing students and provides the information needed to make wise decisions. The text addresses topics such as personal development, relationships with family and friends, career options, healthful living, relating to peers, dealing with family crises, and managing family living. Students gain critical-thinking skills while they learn about alternatives to different situations so they can make the best choices for themselves.
Student Workbook 978-1-61960-655-5	168	978-1-61960-655-5	$32.00*
Designed to help students review content, apply knowledge, and develop critical-thinking skills. A wide variety of activities are provided for various learning styles. This supplement is a consumable resource, designed with perforated pages so that a given chapter can be removed and turned in for grading or checking.
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Table of Contents

Personal Development

1. You: Growing and Changing
2. Your Environment Affects Who You Are
3. You: Up Close and Personal

The Decisions You Face

4. Your Decisions
5. Your Future Career Decisions
6. Your Health Decisions
7. Avoiding Harmful Substances
8. Lifestyle Options and Consequences

Getting Along with Others

9. Communicating with Others
10. Communication Challenges
11. Developing Close Relationships

The Marriage Relationship

12. Engagement and Marriage
13. Building a Marriage

Dimensions of Families

14. Family Life Today
15. The Parenting Decision
16. A New Baby
17. Helping Children Grow and Develop

Families Face Change

18. Balancing Family and Work Concerns
19. Dealing with Family Crises
20. Divorce and Remarriage
21. Growing Older

Managing Family Living

22. Providing for the Family's Physical Needs
23. Protecting the Family's Resources
24. Using Banking Services
25. Managing Your Finances

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Online Text, 6yr. Classroom Subscription (min. 15)

Front Matter (g-wonlinetextbooks.com FCS Family Living)

Chapter 1 (g-wonlinetextbooks.com FCS Family Living)

Chapter 14 (g-wonlinetextbooks.com FCS Family Living)

Glossary (g-wonlinetextbooks.com FCS Family Living)

Presentations for PowerPoint

Chapter 14 (1.99 MB)

Correlations

FCS National Standards Correlations

National Standards for Family (PDF, 67 KB)

National Standards for Interpersonal Relationships (PDF, 83 KB)

Idaho

Adult Living (PDF, 528 KB)

Oklahoma

 

Marriage and Family Life

Pre-PAC Correlations

Broad Field Family and Consumer Sciences Pre-PAC (PDF, 92 KB)

South Carolina

Family Life Education 1, 2 (PDF, 520 KB)

CTE—Priority 41 Family Life Education 1 & 2, 9-12 (PDF, 520 KB)

About the Author(s)

Verdene Ryder - is a nationally recognized author and family life specialist. In addition to being an author of Contemporary Living, she is also the coauthor of the popular parenting text, Parents and Their Children, and a text titled Human Sexuality: Responsible Life Choices. She is often consulted in interviews on radio and TV relating to family life issues. Verdene Ryder has extensive teaching experience at both the high school and university levels. She is a member of several professional organizations and has received numerous academic and leadership awards. A scholarship is named in her honor to enable low-income women to attend college. Verdene Ryder has a master's degree in Family and Community Health.