Monday, February 15, 2010   
Families venturing beyond the front door: policy destinations
Family

A preview of the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada’s 2010 conference

Written by Andrea Mrozek, Manager of Research and Communications at the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada

Let’s take a moment to state the obvious: Canadian families are busy. We drive kids to school and to various additional lessons; we drive ourselves to and from work; we drive ourselves crazy, trying to add hours to the day.

Given this busy reality, keeping up with the latest family research may not always be feasible. That’s where the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada steps in. On March 11, 2010, in Ottawa, we will gather exceptional researchers, decision makers, policy writers and lay people together for our fourth annual conference.

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Monday, February 15, 2010   
Teens who use drugs are more sexually active
Sexuality
New Canadian research suggests that teenagers aged 14 to 19 who take drugs, get drunk or smoke are significantly more likely to be sexually active than other teens.

Using data from Statistics Canada, the study by the Ottawa-based Institute of Marriage and Family Canada found that pot-smoking girls were 60 per cent more likely to be sexually active, compared to 49 per cent of pot-smoking boys. It calculated from the data that 39.9 per cent of teens on average are sexually active – 41.6 per cent of girls and 38.1 per cent of boys.
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Monday, February 15, 2010   
Let kids decide their after-school activities
Culture
Parents may hope that with the right training their children can become a world-class athlete or entertainer, but Montreal child psychologist Dr. Amir Georges Sabongui believes all they might actually be doing is causing burnout and depression.

As the National Post reported, Sabongui recommends that parents take the pressure off their children to be the best they can in an extracurricular activity they may not enjoy, and instead let them decide what activity they want to pursue.
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Monday, February 15, 2010   
School “text ed” program launched
Culture
The Winnipeg-based Canadian Centre for Child Protection is launching a pilot program this month aimed at teaching children the potential dangers of texting, such as being vulnerable to sexually explicit messages and images, luring, invasion of privacy and harassment.

“The explosion of texting and cell phones is something teachers haven’t been well-equipped to address,” spokeswoman Signy Arnason told CanWest News Service. “That’s the purpose of this: to get in early and tackle these issues before we’re faced with a major problem.”
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Rescuing families from the poverty rut
Family
Written by Peter Jon Mitchell, a research analyst at the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada

Picture weather reports showing footage of the blustery ravages of winter. Inevitably there is footage of some unfortunate Canadian whose car is stuck in the snow, tires spinning helplessly. The more the car accelerates, the faster the tires spin and the deeper the ruts become. Now we learn from a December 2009 Senate subcommittee report that decades of social program spending and anti-poverty programs have resulted in years of tire spinning too, entrapping Canadians in poverty.

In From the Margins: A Call to Action on Poverty, Housing and Homelessness offers two important conclusions. First, even when all available programs and benefits are accessed, many Canadians still find themselves in poverty. Second, many of the programs aimed at alleviating poverty actually ensnare people in poverty.

The Senate should be commended for taking on this important issue. However, the report has a significant weakness: it ignores the role of the family as one of the most important poverty-fighting institutions.
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