PSY 3123 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Confounding, Housing Cooperative, Visible Minority
2 May 2017
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A mother or father who has no spouse or common law partner present, living in a dwelling with one or more children. In 2001 this was 15. 7% of all census families, in 2011 it was 16. 3% of all census families. Close to 20% of children under the age of 12 live in a lone-parent household across canada. 12% in 1931, dropped until the 1960s then increased again, probably due to the divorce act of. Common law wasn"t a category until 1961. 8/10 lone parent families are headed by a woman used to be a larger gap but now not as much. Lone parent families are more frequent among visible minorities. Aboriginal families are more likely 34% of their population vs. 17% of the general. In the 30s and prior lone parenthood was most like to be attributed to divorce. However today there is an increase of unmarried mothers.
