[PDF] Canadas Changing Families eBook

Author : Kevin McQuillan
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 45,53 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0802086403

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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.

Author : Maureen Baker
Publisher :
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 42,9 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780070864153

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Overview: 007-086413-2 /Softcover / 448 pp/ Copyright 2001, (11,2000) / ($41.95)Revised to ensure up-to-date coverage of key issues in accordance with its high academic reputation while introducing a new, reader-friendly design, Families: Changing Trends in Canada has always been a widely adopted text for the first course in Sociology of the Family. Maureen Baker's aim as general editor has been to create a Canadian textbook in family studies for post-secondary students, which incorporates an interdisciplinary, historical, comparative and mainly structural perspective, but which is inclusive of various theoretical perspectives. The newly added pedagogical elements will engage students taking the course at universities and community colleges.The fourth edition of Families reflects the evolving nature of the family by paying increased attention to gay, lesbian and multicultural issues. It includes updated statistics and discussion of recent legal reforms, providing students with background on three censuses and other demographic surveys, new studies in social history, recent legal debate, and the growing focus on cultural variations in families. The fourth edition also offers new theoretical approaches that incorporate poststructuralist and feminist theory in order to help students understand how family, gender relations and personal life have been influenced by "post-industrial" or "post-modern" society. Most contributors are sociologists but several have formal qualifications or a research background in psychology, education, women's studies, history and social policy. The result is a text that shows that family life in Canada, as elsewhere, is in a constant state of change.

Author : Anne-Marie Ambert
Publisher : Pearson Education Canada
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 46,2 MB
Release : 2014-02-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0321971515

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Note: To purchase the eText, please search for ISBN 10: ISBN 10: 0321968581 | ISBN 13: 9780321968586 Changing Families: Relationships in Context is the first family textbook in North America to integrate innovative research from sociology, demography, and psychology in a comprehensive manner. It includes both a wider range of theoretical perspectives and a larger spectrum of contexts and topics than most family textbooks. This third Canadian edition reflects more recent changes in the contexts within which Canadian families live, covering topics such as low fertility rates, immigrant and transnational families in Canada, aging populations around the globe, the major shifts of economic power in recent years, and more.

Author : Meg Luxton
Publisher :
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 47,6 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Families
ISBN :

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Families in Canada have changed dramatically since the 1950s, provoking widespread debates about what kinds of families should be recognised and supported socially, especially in law and public policy. This paper reviews those changes, asking why families matter to individual members, to communities and to society as a whole. It identifies some of the key debates provoked by these changes and explores their implications. It argues that the challenge for contemporary thinking about families is to focus on functions and practices - on what people do to take care of themselves and each other, to have and raise beloved children, and to ensure as best as possible, the well-being of themselves, their households, their communities and their society.

Author : Barry Edmonston
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 40,37 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0773537937

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Informative and helpful essays that study census data regarding developments in Canadian society.

Author : Jane Lewis
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 46,19 MB
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1847204368

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As welfare states grow up, they begin to think more carefully about their future. Jane Lewis is showing them how best to do so. This stellar collection of articles by top European scholars combines creative thinking about the new social investment state with impressive empirical research on specific forms of public support for family work. Nancy Folbre, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, US The nature of the relationship between children, parents and the state has been central to the growth of the modern welfare state and has long been a problem for western liberal democracies. Welfare states have undergone profound restructuring over the past two decades and families also have changed, in terms of their form and the nature of the contributions that men and women make to them. More attention is being paid to children by policymakers, but often because of their importance as future citizen workers . The book explores the implications of changes to the welfare state for children in a range of countries. Children, Changing Families and Welfare States: examines the implications of social policies for children sets the discussion in the broader context of both family change and welfare state change, exploring the nature of the policy debate that has allowed the welfare of the child to come to the fore tackles policies to do with both the care and financial support of children looks at the household level and how children fare when both adult men and women must seek to combine paid and unpaid work, and what support is offered by welfare states endeavours to provide a comparative perspective on these issues. The contributors have written a book that will be warmly welcomed by scholars and researchers of social policy, social work and sociology and students at both the advanced undergraduate and post-graduate level.

Author : Vanier Institute of the Family
Publisher :
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 17,6 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN :

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This report identifies significant trends and forces affecting Canada's families and the changes they are undergoing. Following an introductory section, which discusses what families are and what they do, the report consists of 14 tables and 82 charts of family-related information accompanied by written explanations of the numbers and trends. Sidebars on most pages present quotations relevant to the information on that page. Topics covered include: (1) family numbers; (2) ethnic, religious, age, and gender makeup; (3) marriage, divorce, and birth rates; (4) career, economic, and child care issues; (5) gender roles; (6) family time management; and (7) family relationships. A closing section examines troubled families, in particular those where abuse is present. Contains 264 references. (MDM)