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Monday, August 24, 2009   
Study cites benefits of involved fathers
Family

New American research has confirmed that children do better when their fathers get more involved in their lives, the Mercury News of southern California reported.

Sixty low- and middle-income families took part in the three-year study commissioned by California’s Office of Child Abuse Prevention. According to a news release, researchers found that when moms and dads took part in a 16-week parenting course together, “their children were much less likely to show signs of depression, anxiety and hyperactivity.”
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Monday, June 22, 2009   
When we don’t say, “I do”: The cost of declining marriage rates
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Written by Andrea Mrozek, manager of research at the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada

When Statistics Canada’s Census 2006 revealed that marriage rates were on the decline and cohabitation and lone parenting on the rise, it drew little response. Canadians seemed to believe the changing face of Canada’s families would have a neutral impact on society. But would the response have been so blasé if Canadians knew that family breakdown – whether through divorce, lone parenting or cohabitation – increases an individual’s chances of living in poverty?

That’s the result revealed by new research released on June 3 by the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada. The protection that marriage provides against child poverty is the major theme of the new report, Private Choices, Public Costs: How Failing Families Cost Us All.
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Thursday, May 14, 2009   
Recession hurts working moms
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Ontario’s Human Rights Legal Support Centre suspects working women are being forced to bear the brunt of workplace cutbacks caused by the current recession, Canadian Press reported.

An independent agency funded by the province of Ontario, the centre provides free legal counsel to people who allege they are victims of discrimination.

Executive director Katherine Laird told CP it now receives up to 15 complaints a week from women who have lost their jobs or fear they will be fired solely because they are either pregnant or on maternity leave. She said the volume of such cases began rising significantly in January, just as the recession began impacting the workplace.
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Thursday, May 14, 2009   
Recovering home: How drug treatment courts can reconnect families
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Written by Peter Jon Mitchell, a research analyst at the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada

Speaking to a small, attentive audience, she described how her dad recently entrusted her with his credit card to buy concert tickets. She simply stated, “It was huge.” Though she might sound like a young teen experiencing the first taste of adult responsibility, this middle-aged woman is a recovering addict in a court supervised drug treatment program.
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Monday, April 27, 2009   
Caring for elderly becomes a full-time job
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More attention needs to be given to the growing number of Canadians who devote hours equivalent to a full-time job to caring for elderly family members, a study carried out by the Boomer Project, a market research firm, has concluded.

As reported by the Ottawa Citizen, five million Canadians care for a person with long-term health issues. Of those, 25 per cent said they spend at least 40 hours each week in that capacity.
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