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Family life may become a hindrance to a career, most frequently so for women, and intense professional development is usually in a clear collision with our private life and family obligations. The demographic crisis in many EU countries enforces the development of both EU-wide proactive measures to improve the possibilities for life-work balancing and the national action plans to alleviate the career-family conflict. The article presents and evaluates the results of EU research on the perception of life-work balancing possibilities and concludes with pointing out the areas that should get accounted for in the European employment policies.