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There are a lot of things that happened in history that helped make family and consumer sciences what it is today. I am going to talk about some specific things that happened that I think helped shape what family and consumer sciences is today. They are the beliefs of family and consumer sciences, the history of family and consumer sciences, and who was involved in making family and consumer sciences a discipline.
In the begining the beliefs of family and consumer sciences were to educate women on how to be leaders. Family and consumer sciences historically taught individuals to be well rounded and also helped raise the standard of living for American families . Originally the components that made up the discipline of family and consumer sciences included taking care of the family, cooking, cleaning, sewing, and knowing how to take care of money. At that point in time, that was what the woman's role was in society. However, the time period has changed and women's roles have changed as well. It is no longer a society in which the man goes out and works and the woman stays home and takes care of the house and the children doing the cooking, cleaning and sewing. Now you often see the roles reversed where the woman goes out and works, and the man stays home and cooks, cleans, and takes care of the home and children. Both sexes need to know how to do all those things as well as how to balance a check

book, how to pay the bills or sew a button on a shirt. With single parent families on the rise, it is even more important that men and women both have skills that were once thought as just a man's or ...

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...mics for this new field. This helped the Family and Consumer Science discipline tremendously. Annie Godfrey Dewey also helped organize getting home economics included in schools and universities for students to learn. Almost a century later at the Scottsdale Conference in 1993, the name home economics was changed to the modern day family and consumer sciences because it better fit the focus on helping strengthen individuals, and helping communities thrive .
These were all very important parts of family and consumer science, that has helped it evolve to what it is today. It is not just something for women, it is something that everyone can learn from and be a part of today. Family and consumer sciences has become more than just cooking, cleaning, and sewing; it is being able to take skills and apply them in real life to improve the quality of life for everyone.

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