What Is The Future Of The Family In Canada?

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studies Robert
Glossop said that "Canadians continue to report that the most important things
in their lives are their families...more important than their political
convictions, their religious beliefs, their jobs, their wages." A Statscan
study reported that only forty-five per cent of families are the ‘traditional'
type, however, Robert Glossop says the data "tell me that people are still
living in families, but they don't look like the kind of families I grew up in
the 1950s; it tells me that people are still making commitments to one another."
Furthermore, when he was going around the country and talking to people, he
found that people are very quick to "point to a crisis in the family and to
argue that nobody cares about the family anymore. But when asked about their
own family, they suggest that it is still the core of their being, the core of
their existence."
The children of the future are not ‘doomed' as children from the age of
12 to 17 are very optimistic. An ...

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