ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses practical affairs by considering the effects of higher education on family life, consumer behavior, leisure, and health. Among the most definitive and important outcomes of higher education are its many influences on the family. College appears to have profound effects upon traditional sex roles, marital relationships, divorce, family planning, rearing of children, and other family relationships. College education is associated with a perceptible narrowing of traditional differences between the sexes in interests, attitudes, and behavior patterns. College education affects attitudes and behavior toward marriage in several ways. It has a significant influence on choice of marriage partners. Divorce rates probably vary somewhat among persons of different educational levels. College education of parents is highly favorable to the careful rearing of children. It encourages the parents' expenditure of thought, time, and money on behalf of their children, with the effect of improving the children's characteristics and achievements.
