FNF 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Baby Boomers, In Vitro Fertilisation, Married People

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

Document Summary

Family life: definitions, cultural variations and demographic trends. Portrait of families and living arrangements in canada: families, households and marital status 2011. Census [statistics canada (2012)] http://www. environicsanalytics. ca/ - l1r 0b4 neighbourhood. 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. A census family is composed of a married couple, or common-law couple, with or without children, or a lone parent living with at least one child in the same dwelling. A couple can be of the opposite sex or of the same sex. Persons not in census families include persons living alone or individuals living with other relatives or non-relatives. In 2011, about one-fifth or 20% of people aged 15 and over did not live in a census family.