This article presents the study of home and family life education in the U.S. The review of the research in the past three years has attempted to report and evaluate the most important published studies. Little attention has been given to consumer education as it relates to home and family life, however, since a recent publication of this subject matter summarized investigations in this area. An educational program, taking awareness of interests and needs at various age levels from preschool thru adulthood, may well accept as one of its major purposes that of aiding family members to assume their roles effectively both in the small family group and in the larger community group.