Monday, July 19, 2010   
Canada’s top family-friendly cities
Marketplace
Written by Andrea Mrozek, manager of research and communications at the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada

What makes a city family-friendly? The Institute of Marriage and Family Canada thoroughly examined this question in our first family-friendly cities index, a report card evaluating 33 Canadian cities that was released in June 2010.

Of course, “family-friendliness” is defined differently by different families. In our study we assessed cities across Canada according to 23 factors grouped into five categories: community feel, education choice, cost of living, economic strength and family independence.
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Monday, July 19, 2010   
Child trafficking bill finally becomes law
Sexuality
It is now the law in Canada that anyone convicted of trafficking children must be sent to prison for no less than five years. The legislation mandating this new minimum sentence, Bill C-268, received Royal Assent on June 29 after passing in the Senate 12 days earlier.

Manitoba Conservative MP Joy Smith, who first introduced the private member’s bill in January 2009, credits its passage to widespread support from Canadians, including many people of faith, who provided the public pressure needed in order to make this happen.
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Monday, July 19, 2010   
Exercise lessens dementia risk
Health
Toronto researcher Dr. Laura Middleton believes even young children need to be encouraged to become physically active if they are to prevent the onset of dementia as seniors.

Middleton is with the Centre for Stroke Recovery at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. As Canadian Press reported, a study she conducted found that women age 65 and older who were physically active as teenagers reported significantly lower cognitive impairment compared to those who were inactive.
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Monday, July 19, 2010   
Too much screen time linked to attention problems
Culture
Children and young adults who spend excessive amounts of time in front of the TV or playing computer video games risk impairing their attention span, a new American study reported in HealthDay News suggests.

Psychologist Edward Swing, a graduate student at Iowa State University, found that young people who spent more than two hours a day were between 1.6 and 2.2 times more likely to develop greater-than-average attention problems compared to those whose viewing time was less than two hours a day.
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Thursday, June 10, 2010   
Teen pregnancy on the decline in Canada
Life

Written by Peter Jon Mitchell, senior researcher at the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada

Teen pregnancy rates continue to fall in Canada according to a study released May 27 by the Sex Information and Education Council of Canada (SIECCAN). The study, which is published in The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality, compared pregnancy rates in Canada, England/Wales, Sweden and the US. In the 10 year period from 1996 to 2006, the teen pregnancy rate dropped in Canada by nearly 37 per cent. The rate is calculated by adding the number of women ages 15 to 19 who gave birth with those who had abortions. The number is expressed per 1000 women in this age group.

The Canadian teen pregnancy rate is 27.9, compared with 31.4 in Sweden, 60.3 in England/Wales and 61.2 in the US. The report’s authors acknowledge that many variables influence pregnancy rates, but as a promoter of sex education, they focus on the influence of sex ed and access to “reproductive choice” as significant contributors to the decline.

The decline in the teen pregnancy rate is good news, but what do the numbers really tell us?
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