the first section presents a brief overview of current trends in the workfamily life related areas then the main key drivers of change over the last decade are identified and described emphasis is placed on the dramatic organisational changes that have been taking place in the workplace and on their impact on the strategies elaborated by parents to combine their job with family obligations in the last section drawing lessons from evidencebased research and the latest data presented in the previous sections we flesh out the two scenarios to developed for this purpose in the project