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Thursday, June 10, 2010   
New dads can get the "baby blues" too: study
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Preparing to welcome a new child into the family and then bringing the newborn home from the hospital can result in post-partum depression – the “baby blues” – for dads as well as moms, new American research suggests.

As Reuters reported, an examination by researchers at the Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Virginia, of data collected in 43 previous studies from 16 different countries showed about 10 per cent of fathers experience depression before or soon after their child is born.
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Wednesday, April 21, 2010   
Parents spending more time with their kids
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Two recently published studies – one in the United States and the other in the United Kingdom – suggest that working parents are spending a lot more time with their children compared to previous generations.

As the New York Times reported, a study by married economists Garey and Valerie A. Ramey at the University of California, San Diego, found that the amount of time that parents at all income levels – but especially among those with postsecondary education – spent with their children had risen “dramatically” since the mid-1990s.
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Monday, March 15, 2010   
Budget includes help for single parents
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One item in the latest federal budget suggests to Dave Quist, executive director of the Ottawa-based Institute of Marriage and Family Canada (IMFC), that the federal government “is going in the right direction” on family income-splitting.

Under the Universal Child Care Benefit (UCCB), which provides families with $100 a month for each child under the age of six, the amount received is considered income and is therefore taxable. In the case of two-parent families, the amount is included in the income of the spouse or common-law partner with the lesser income. That is obviously not possible in the case of single parents – to their detriment.
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Monday, February 15, 2010   
Families venturing beyond the front door: policy destinations
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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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Rescuing families from the poverty rut
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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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