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Learn more about Family and consumer science in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01) |
 | | Family and consumer sciences, or home economics, involves the study of nutrition, cooking, parenting, interior decoration, textiles, gardening, and other useful aspects of home management. |
 | | Most of the best, most highly skilled homemakers never studied "family and consumer science" or even knew it by that name. |
 | | Family and Consumer Sciences may be represented under the Social Sciences category for its emphasis on the well-being of families, individuals, and communties, or under the hard sciences for its emphasis on Nutrition and Textile Science. |
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