FNF 100 Lecture : Family Life_mynotes.doc

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Family Studies
• Course: FNF 100
• Professor: Dan Mahoney

Document Summary

How to cite if website: date accessed/retrieval date. Family life: definitions, cultural variations & demographic trends (09/16/2013) *portrait of families & living arrangements in canada: families, households, marital status 2011 census (statistics canada, 2012) in canada, a census is taken every 5yrs. Increasingly, young people are moving back home b/c of economy, life issues at the same time there is a stigma about adults living w/ parents. There are more people in relationships but living apart. 2011 census enumerated over almost 9 million census families in canada up 5. 5% from 2006. Married couples constituted the largest census family group (~67%). Their proportion has been steadily decreasing for the past 20 years, ie. fewer people are getting married but married couples still make up the biggest proportion of census families. A census family is composed of a married couple/common-law couple, w/ or w/o children, or lone parent living w/ at least one child in the same dwelling.