FRHD 1020 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Incest, Imes, Married People
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Being deined as having a family oten carries with it a status of normality. Being a mother or father is a legiimate and normaive status, and having a family carries disinct rights and responsibiliies o. Generally, the term family is not formally deined, but rather there is a common understanding of what is normally meant: normaive biases also come along with this, such as not having muliple wives. Data box 1. 1 - portrait of changing families. Staisics canada released a family portrait of canadians, examining developments in families, marital status, households, and living arrangements between 2001 and 2006 and how children it into these evolving family structures o. Also provides informaion on same-sex couples, both common law and for the irst ime, married. Accounted for majority, however % down from ive years earlier. Increase of lone-parent families: most rapid growth rate for families headed by men. Twice the rate of growth than families headed by women.