The New Canadian Family: How the North American Family is changing and changing fast.

By Maria Kaufmann | October 3, 2012

According to one of the latest Statistics Canada documents, “Portraits of Families and Living Arrangements in Canada: Families, households and marital status, 2011 Census of Population,” Canadian households have undergone substantial change since the last Census in 2006.

Among the reported findings, the document notes increases in lone- parent families, same sex couple families (“42.4% from 2006″1), child-less families (now 44.5% of families), and common- law couples (“more than four times the 3.1% increase for married couples”2).

1. http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2011/as-sa/98-312-x/98-312-x2011001-eng.cfm#a1

2. http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2011/as-sa/98-312-x/98-312-x2011001-eng.cfm#a1

 

 

 

To learn more about how the Canadian family is changing click on the links below:

Main reports (Statistics Canada): 

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/120919/dq120919a-eng.htm

Clip about the Canadian family since 1921 (Statistics Canada): 

http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2006/as-sa/97-553/vignettes/families.swf

 

The Canadian family in the news (Toronto Star): 

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/politics/article/1258957–canadian-families-growing-more-diverse-census-data-shows

The Canadian family in the news (the Catholic Register, Canada’s Catholic News Source): http://www.catholicregister.org/news/canada/item/15118-canadian-census-figures-show-devastating-decline-in-traditional-family

 

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