The Vanier Institute commissions and publishes in-depth papers written by Canadian experts on a wide range of topics of relevance to families in Canada. Our Contemporary Family Trends papers contribute to the discussion of important family issues by making current knowledge on families available to researchers and policy-makers, educators and students, businesses and social service agencies, media and other interested parties. The papers are published both in print and on our website.

2012

• Young Carers in Canada: The Hidden Costs and Benefits of Young Caregiving, Grant Charles, Tim Stainton and Sheila Marshall, July 3, 2012

2011

• After the Nuclear Age?, Lois Harder, October 12, 2011
• Changing Families, New Understandings, Meg Luxton, June 29, 2011

2009

• Divorce: Facts, Causes and Consequences, Anne-Marie Ambert, November 19, 2009
• Children & Cities: Planning to Grow Together, Juan Torres, October 27, 2009
• “Caution! Kids at Play?” Unstructured Time Use Among Children and Adolescents, Belinda Boekhoven, October 12, 2009
• Work/Family Balance: What Do We Really Know?, Jacques Barrette, January 15, 2009

2008

• Rediscovering the Family Weal, Bernard Roy and Judith Petitpas, June 8, 2008
• Families and the Environment: Understanding, Cultivating and Celebrating Their Links, Barbara Vogt, April 21, 2008

2007

• Good Servant, Bad Master? Electronic Media and the Family, Arlene Moscovitch, October 15, 2007
• Building Emotional Intelligence: Darwin Reconsidered, Jenni Tipper, March 27, 2007
• The Rise in the Number of Children and Adolescents Who Exhibit Problematic Behaviours: Multiple Causes, Anne-Marie Ambert, February 20, 2007

2006

• The Effects of the Changing Age Structure on Households and Families to 2026, Roger Sauvé, December 18, 2006
• Gambling with Our (Kids’) Futures: Gambling As a Family Policy Issue, Arlene Moscovitch, June 11, 2006
• One-Parent Families: Characteristics, Causes, Consequences, and Issues, Anne-Marie Ambert, March 4, 2006

2005

• Heart Smarts, Robert Glossop and Alanna Mitchell, November 12, 2005
• Same-Sex Couples and Same-Sex-Parent Families: Relationships, Parenting and Issues of Marriage, Anne-Marie Ambert, November 12, 2005
• Cohabitation and Marriage: How Are They Related?, Anne-Marie Ambert, September 17, 2005

2004
 

• The Changing Culture of Parenting, Kerry Daly, September 9, 2004
• Delayed Life Transitions: Trends and Implications, Roderic Beaujot, May 10, 2004

2002

• Portraits of Fathers, Diane Dubeau, September 25, 2002
• Aboriginal Family Trends: Extended Families, Nuclear Families, Families of the Heart, Marlene Brant Castellano, September 15, 2002

2001

• The Ties That Bind Aging Families, Anne Martin-Matthews, June 18, 2001

2000

• Grandparenthood in Canada, Carolyn Rosenthal & James Gladstone, September 1, 2000
• It Keeps Getting Faster: Changing Patterns of Time in Families, Kerry Daly, April 1, 2000

1998

• Strengths in Families: Accentuating the Positive, Benjamin Schlesinger, March 20, 1998