Exam 2: Canadas Families: Historical and Contemporary Variations

An example of familial change of the twenty-first century is ________

________ families were bearing the brunt of exploitation and deprivation in the midst of the rapid socio-economic changes at the turn of the twentieth century.

The _______ that was passed by the federal government in 1876 defined Indigenous people as wards of the Crown, officially infantilizing them in their relations with the paternal state and its agents.

The emergence of family history as a branch of "new social history" studies emerged in universities in the 1960s.

The phrase "________" referred to the situation where a man would desert his wife rather than seek an official divorce in the early part of the 1900s.

Discuss the problems associated with patrilineage in association with the Indian Act of 1876.

In the early 1900s, divorce was granted only with proof of abandonment brought before the courts and then later finalized by an Act of Parliament.

In the 1950s, the purchase of a ________ transformed family time and recreation in the evenings.

By the mid-nineteenth century, women became newly glorified in their traditional domestic roles and were expected to make home and family a safe haven.

Only recently have Canadian families become diverse models in form and composition.

Discuss the conflict between education and the work of children in the late 1800s.

What is meant by the "golden age" of the 1950s?

What was meant by "chain migration" in Canada between 1896 and 1914?

Unemployment insurance became a reality in 1941, but it left most working men out of its provisions given that men could find jobs more easily than women.

The relationship of structural and familial change through time can be attributed to the impact of the ________ process.

In the 1950s and 1960s, mass produced books written by pediatricians like Dr. Benjamin Spock, were popular in middle-class homes across North America. Despite Dr. Spock's reassuring tones, most childrearing experts of the day blamed ________ for all of the physical, emotional, and developmental problems that children might face.

Discuss how the Baby Boom era had an influence on Canadian families.

Why was the 1944 Family Allowances Act so important?

Discuss why the "woman question" became a crisis in many households.

The Family Allowances Act (1944) was the nation's first universal welfare measure. The federal government gave mothers ________ dollars per month for each child 16 years and younger.