Beställningsvara. Skickas inom 7-10 vardagar. Fri frakt för medlemmar vid köp för minst 249 kr.
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.
Kevin McQuillan is a demographer and a professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Western Ontario.Zenaida R. Ravanera is a research associate in the Population Studies Centre at the University of Western Ontario.
Contributors IntroductionZENAIDA R. RAVANERA and KEVIN MCQUILLANPart One: Changes in Families: Childbearing, Work Patterns, and Life Course Transitions Transformed Families and the Basis for ChildbearingRODERIC BEAUJOT and ALI MUHAMMADA Balancing Act: Parents’ Work Arrangements and Family TimeEVELYNE LAPIERRE-ADAMCYK, NICOLE MARCIL-GRATTON, and CÉLINE LE BOURDAISParental Time, Work Schedules, and Changing Gender RolesBENOÎT RAPOPORT and CÉLINE LE BOURDAISDelayed Life Transitions: Trends and ImplicationsRODERIC BEAUJOTPart Two: Family Transformation and Investment in Children The Evolving Family Living Arrangements of Canada’s Children: Consequences for Child Poverty and Child OutcomesDON KERRThe Impact of Family Context on Adolescent Emotional Health during the Transition to High SchoolKAREN MAC CONIntergenerational Transfer: The Impact of Parental Separation on Young Adults’ Conjugal Behaviour CLAUDINE PROVENCHER, CÉLINE LE BOURDAIS, and NICOLE MARCIL-GRATTONSingle Parenthood and Labour Force Participation: The Effect of Social PoliciesNANCY MEILLEUR and EVELYNE LAPIERRE-ADAMCYKPart Three: Family Solidarity and Social Integration Family Solidarity in Canada: An Exploration with the General Social Survey on Family and Community Support FERNANDO RAJULTON and ZENAIDA R. RAVANERASocial Integration over the Life Course: Influences of Individual, Family, and Community Characteristics ZENAIDA R. RAVANERA and FERNANDO RAJULTONConclusion: Family Change and the Challenge for Social Policy KEVIN MCQUILLAN
