FNF 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Married People, Joint Custody, Surrogacy

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

Document Summary

Portrait of families and living arrangements in canada: families, households and marital status 2011. 2011 census enumerated over almost 9 million census families in canada up 505% from. Married couples constituted the largest census family group (67%: although this is a big number, it is decreasing. 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 swelling. 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. Cohabitating couples with children, lone parents with children and legally married couples with children make up large portion of all canadian households. Considerable diversity in household structure exist in canadian families.