Exam 2: Canadas Families: Historical and Contemporary Variations

Explain how wage-earning changed the lives of Canadian women of the 1960s and 1970s.

What characterized the early 1900s as part of "Canada's Century" and the ideal childhood?

Same-sex marriage became legal in Canada in 2005.

Describe the social stigma against divorce in the early 1900s.

Due to an abundance of cheap land in North America, nuclear families dominated during colonization times.

________ had the most important influence on families of the 1960s and 1970s.

_______ was augmented and accelerated by such transportation and communication advances as canals, railways, and telegraph lines, all of which facilitated the realization of a nation "from sea unto sea" that was realized by the first decade of the twentieth century.

Due to socio-economic changes at the turn of the twentieth century, approximately 1 in 10 babies lost their lives before their first birthdays.

Central to family life in the North American colonies was the idea that adulthood was signified by ________

The Great War accelerated women's public involvement and resulted in their right to vote.

Between 2006 and 2011, the number of common-law couples increased by approximately ________

Postwar________ occurred after the Second World War as Canadians wanted to settle into a nostalgic version of domesticity.

Compulsory school legislation began in Ontario in ________

What did the Chinese Immigration Act of 1923 entail?

As the twenty-first century dawned, the average number of children per family declined to 1.7, while a new demographic phenomenon, the "childless by choice" union, made significant headway. Short

During the early twentieth century, as Canada was undergoing modernization, families began taking greater responsibility for educating their children at home.

The family as an ideal is socially constructed and reconstructed to meet the larger social needs and objectives that are defined by the dominant class and upheld by the state, in any given time.

The passage of the Indian Act (1876) ensured that Aboriginal women who married white men kept all their privileges associated with Indian status.

In the twentieth century, maternal mortality was the second-ranked threat to life for women of child-bearing age.

According to census data, a number of demographic changes occurred within families between 2006 and 2016. Describe these patterns and trends.