Moore and Asay (2013) discuss managing family resources. Humans consume and require a considerably large amount of resources to survive including physical and personal growth. The basic needs include food, water, shelter, and clothing. Additional resources are needed to support education, community, and recreation (p. 4). These are all types of needs that I have had to balance resources to provide for myself and my family. When I manage my personal resources, my primary concern is that all my family’s basic needs of food, water, shelter, and clothing are covered. The main resource I have to provide the basic needs is an income from my fiancés job. When my first son was born, I decided to be a stay at home mom. This dramatically changed our money resource from a two income household to only one income. This change continues to be challenging in providing the needs for my family, however I still feel the value of being a stay at home mom outweighs the additional income resource for now.…show more content… 4). All of these factors create complexities in managing family resources. Furthermore, Moore and Asay discuss how families identify needs first, then focus on finding ways to meet the needs. The solution to each need will always require resources (p. 5). There are challenges to meetings a families need when they have limited resources. One of the challenges discussed by Moore and Asay is sufficiency which examines if the family will accept a solution that meets only their minimum need. Another challenge is that family needs are dynamic and ongoing. A family could have a resource that was useful for some occasions, but not helpful for other times (p.
