Family life and Family law

Many people in Canada find that it takes two incomes to raise a family, even though parents are having fewer children.

Most mothers have a job outside the home, and in many families, both parents share the work of shopping, cooking, cleaning the house and looking after the children.

Because divorce has become more common, there are many one-parent families in Canada.

Most single parents who raise their children on a full-time basis are women.

There are also same-sex couples with children.