Canada's Changing Families by Kevin McQuillan, Zenaida R Rava... - 9780802089663

Canada's Changing FamiliesImplications for Individuals and Society\nAuthor(s): Kevin McQuillan, Zenaida R Ravanera\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press, Canada\nImprint: University of Toronto Press\nISBN-13: 9780802089663, 978-0802089663\nSynopsis\nIn 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.\n\nUsing data collected in recent surveys by Statistics Canada, contributors to this volume illustrate how transformed conditions in the labou.