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What do you know about the job opportunities for someone with a PhD in Family Studies? I'd want to teach, do research, and practice in this area.
The academic job market as a whole right now seems to be pretty rough, due in no small part to recent national economic woes and subsequent funding hits to pretty much every state/public university (and likely many private ones as well). I'm sure there are pockets of availability, particularly if you're willing to live in less-popular areas, but even then, the competition is likely pretty fierce.
That being said, if you began the program this or next year, that would give the economy another 4-6 years (give or take) to recover before you were heading out to the job market.
According to the BLS outlook, there will be a large increase in the number of marriage and family therapists in the next 10 years. So what about a PhD in MFT to be able to train marriage and family therapists? Would this be a route with more employment options?