Canada's Changing Families : : Implications for Individuals and Society / / ed. by Kevin McQuillan, Zenaida R Ravanera.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Beaujot, Roderic,; Bourdais, Céline Le,; Con, Karen Mac,; Kerr, Don,; Lapierre-Adamcyk, Evelyne,; Lapierreadamcyk, Évelyne,; Marcil-Gratton, Nicole,; Marcilgratton, Nicole,; Mcquillan, Kevin,; Meilleur, Nancy,; Muhammad, Ali,; Provencher, Claudine,; Rajulton, Fernando,; Rapoport, Benoît,; Ravanera, Zenaida R.,
• HerausgeberIn: McQuillan, Kevin,; Ravanera, Zenaida R,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- 1. Introduction -- PART ONE. Changes in Families: Childbearing, Work Patterns, and Life Course Transitions -- 2. Transformed Families and the Basis for Childbearing -- 3. A Balancing Act: Parents' Work Arrangements and Family Time -- 4. Parental Time, Work Schedules, and Changing Gender Roles -- 5. Delayed Life Transitions: Trends and Implications -- PART TWO. Family Transformation and Investment in Children -- 6. The Evolving Family Living Arrangements of Canada's Children: Consequences for Child Poverty and Child Outcomes -- 7. The Impact of Family Context on Adolescent Emotional Health during the Transition to High School -- 8. Intergenerational Transfer: The Impact of Parental Separation on Young Adults' Conjugal Behaviour -- 9. Single Parenthood and Labour Force Participation: The Effect of Social Policies -- PART THREE. Family Solidarity and Social Integration -- 10. Family Solidarity in Canada: An Exploration with the General Social Survey on Family and Community Support -- 11. Social Integration over the Life Course: Influences of Individual, Family, and Community Characteristics -- 12. Conclusion: Family Change and the Challenge for Social Policy