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Social Science Marriage & Family

Canada's Changing Families

Implications for Individuals and Society

edited by Kevin McQuillan & Zenaida R. Ravanera

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Mar 2006
Category
Marriage & Family
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780802089663
    Publish Date
    Apr 2006
    List Price
    $102.00
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780802086402
    Publish Date
    Apr 2006
    List Price
    $53.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781442671690
    Publish Date
    Mar 2006
    List Price
    $99.00

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In recent years, two significant trends have had a substantial impact on Canadian families. First, Canadian families have been dramatically altered by high rates of separation and divorce, declining fertility, greater popularity of alternative family arrangements such as cohabitation, and increasing involvement of women in paid labour. Second, changes occurring in the economy and the larger society have brought new pressures to bear on families. In Canada’s Changing Families, editors Kevin McQuillan and Zenaida R. Ravenera explore how these developments have altered family life.

Using data collected in recent surveys by Statistics Canada, contributors to this volume illustrate how transformed conditions in the labour market have forced families to alter their routines and the division of responsibilities within the household. At the same time, the government, striving to maintain or increase the competitive position of the economy, has moved to control spending, restrain taxes, and reduce deficits. The result has been new demands on the family to provide or supplement services that might otherwise be provided by the state.

Canada’s Changing Families is an eye-opening study and one of great contemporary relevance.

About the authors

Kevin McQuillan is a demographer and a professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Western Ontario.

 

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Zenaida R. Ravanera is a research associate in the Population Studies Centre at the University of Western Ontario.

 

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