FNF 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Statics, Breakup, Joint Custody

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

Document Summary

Family life: definitions, cultural variations and demographic trends (cid:498)in canada, you are where you live(cid:499) www. environicsanalytics. ca. Portrait of families and living arrangements in canada: families, households and marital status. 2016 census enumerated over 9 million census families in canada up 5. 5 % from 2011. 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 2016, about 32% of all private households did not live in a census family: lived alone, lived with non-relatives, lived with other relatives.