The Canadian Family in Crisis

The Canadian Family in Crisis

Author: John F. Conway

Publisher: James Lorimer & Company

Published: 2003-08

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9781550287981

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In this book, sociology professor John F. Conway looks at families past, present and future and examines the changing nature of family. Figures from the first decade of the new milennium tell us that one marriage in two may well end in divorce. Conway considers the implications of divorce, the impact of social changes on men, women and children, and suggests how these issues might be better addressed through family policy. The new edition addresses the harsh new reality facing Canadian families, especially those most vulnerable as a result of the crisis of the family. The Canadian Family in Crisis is the first book to examine the drastic changes in the Canadian family over the last thirty years.


The Canadian Family in Crisis

The Canadian Family in Crisis

Author: Conway, John F.

Publisher: Lorimer

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13:

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The Canadian Family in Crisis is essential reading for anyone who is concerned about the direction family life is taking in the twenty-first century. The author looks at the changing nature of the family, considers the implications of divorce, the impact of social changes on men, women, and children, and suggests how these issues might be better addressed through family policy.


The Canadian Family in Crisis

The Canadian Family in Crisis

Author: John F. Conway

Publisher: Lorimer

Published: 1990-01-01

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 9781550282863

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The Canadian Family in Crisis is essential reading for anyone who is concerned about the direction family life is taking in the twenty-first century. The author looks at the changing nature of the family, considers the implications of divorce, the impact of social changes on men, women, and children, and suggests how these issues might be better addressed through family policy.


The Infinite Bonds of Family

The Infinite Bonds of Family

Author: Cynthia R. Comacchio

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 1999-01-01

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780802079299

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With this book, Cynthia Comacchio presents the first historical overview of domestic life in Canada, showing how families have both changed and remained the same, through transitions brought about by urbanization, industrialization, and war.


Canadian Family Policies

Canadian Family Policies

Author: Maureen Baker

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 1995-01-01

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 9780802077868

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With poverty, unemployment, and one-parent families on the rise in most Western democracies, government assistance presents an increasingly urgent and complex problem. This is the first study to explore Canada's family policies in an international context. Maureen Baker looks at the successes and failures of social programs in other countries in search of solutions that might work in Canada. Baker has chosen seven industrialized countries for her comparative study: Australia, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. These countries experience social and economic strains similar to those felt in Canada, and though they share certain policy solutions, major differences in policy remain. Baker considers which of the policies in these countries are most effective in reducing poverty, enhancing family life, and improving the status of women, then applies her findings to the Canadian situation. Bringing together research and statistics from the fields of demography, political science, economics, sociology, women's studies, and social policy, this rich, multidisciplinary study provides a unique resource for anyone interested in Canadian family policy.


Changing Women, Changing History

Changing Women, Changing History

Author: Diana Lynn Pedersen

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780886292805

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Changing Women, Changing History is a bibliographic guide to the scholarship, both English and French, on Canadian's women's history. Organized under broad subject headings, and accompanied by author and subject indices it is accessible and comprehensive.


The Making of the October Crisis

The Making of the October Crisis

Author: D'Arcy Jenish

Publisher: Anchor Canada

Published: 2020-10-06

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 0385663277

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A definitive, mind-changing history of the October Crisis and the events leading up to it. The first bombs exploded in Montreal in the spring of 1963, and over the next seven years there were hundreds more bombings, many bank robberies, six murders and, in October 1970, the kidnappings of a British diplomat and a Quebec cabinet minister. The perpetrators were members of the Front de libération du Québec, dedicated to establishing a sovereign and socialist Quebec. Half a century on, we should have reached some clear understanding of what led to the October Crisis. Instead, too much attention has been paid to the Crisis and not enough to the years preceding it. Most of those who have written about the FLQ have been ardent nationalists, committed sovereigntists or former terrorists. They tell us that the authorities should have negotiated with the kidnappers and contend that Jean Drapeau's administration and the governments of Robert Bourassa and Pierre Trudeau created the October Crisis by invoking the War Measures Act. Using new research and interviews, D'Arcy Jenish tells for the first time the complete story—starting from the spring of 1963. This gripping narrative by a veteran journalist and master storyteller will change forever the way we view this dark chapter in Canadian history.


A Timeless Place

A Timeless Place

Author: Julia Harrison

Publisher: UBC Press

Published: 2013-09-01

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 077482610X

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As Julia Harrison’s first summer living in Ontario approached, she became aware of the culture of the cottage. While friends and family talked of nothing but languid afternoons on the dock and bartered for as many lakeside days as possible, Harrison marveled at the less attractive components of cottage life: the clogged highways en route and the unrelenting investment of money and labour that the idyllic escapes demanded. Curious about the rich and passionate meaning these places seemed to hold, Harrison studied cottagers in the Haliburton region over the course of seven years. Thoughtfully and engagingly written, A Timeless Place considers the cottage family as a place where memories are treasured, national identity is celebrated, spiritual balance is restored, and even a few dark secrets are kept.


Growing Up

Growing Up

Author: Neil Sutherland

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 1997-01-01

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 9780802079831

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By laying out the structure of children's lives and their childhood experiences in such settings as the home, the classroom, the church, and on streets and in the playground, the author describes how English-Canadian children grew up in 'modern' Canada.