State and explain the types of family goals - JSS1 Home Economics Family needs, goals and standards Question

1. Long-term goals: These are big family goals which take a very long period of time to achieve, e.g building a house, buying a car, saving money for retirement, having healthy children and providing good education for the children. These long-term goals influence the other types of goals set by the family.

2. Short-term goals: These are goals set up as means of achieving the long-term goals. They take less time than the long term goals. For instance, the regular provision of three balanced meal each for the children could be a short-term goal towards meeting the long-term goal of raising healthy children.

3. Means-to-end or instrumental goals: These are simple, immediate goals which can be regarded as steps taken to achieve the more complex goals. They take very short time to achieve. For instance, shopping for food, planning, preparation and serving meals could be means-to-end goals which can be used to achieve the intermediate goal of providing children with balanced meals.