SOCIOL 2PP3 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Sept, Welfare, Income Splitting
10 Nov 2018
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Definitions of family shape our personal opinions. We have so much diversity in the definitions of family today, the way we define a family impacts our beliefs and our everyday lives. Impacts how the government plans social policy - state policy relies on specific definitions of family that have historically excluded many families. While the canadian government has adopted more inclusive definitions of family there still remains of non-inclusive definitions of family. Up to 2016, if you were a same-sex parent but not biologically connected to your child, you would need to legally adopt the child. 2017 - change to child support law to give adult child with disabilities access to parental cash (lecture 2, sept 10) Government definitions of families and eligibility criteria for social assistance. Social assistance rules may deter relationship formation. Eligibility rules can do this if recipients are reluctant to cohabit or marry because of the fear of having their assistance taken away, or reduced.
