Home economics education is not different from career education, but career education should include as a primary thrust preparation for family life. Career education itself is concerned with total development of all students, home and community learning, self-development, and is integrated learning. Just as career education will increase student options in education, employment, and life style, it can also increase options about the family pattern and the potential of an improved physical, psychological, and social quality of human life. Objectives of home economics education as a part of career education include: (1) helping students achieve educational outcomes relating directly to the family, (2) assisting girls to explore the dual role of homemaking and a career, (3) preparation of both males and females for their roles in the family, (4) experience in family life and home economics-related occupations, (5) emphasis on educational processes related to career education, (6) providing adults with opportunities to develop family living skills, and (7) strengthening the educational climate at home. These objectives can be achieved through exploratory home economics courses, interdisciplinary learning, leadership, and expansion of home-based learning and mini-courses. (SC)