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The Vanier Institute of the Family publishes and distributes timely, high quality research and analysis – in English and in French – on a wide range of topics concerning family well-being in Canada. Including research papers and fact sheets as well as Transition magazine. In addition, the Institute commissions work from noted academics and practitioners.
The Vanier Institute is a national research institute that speaks to issues as they affect and are affected by families and individual family members from a perspective that embraces the diversity of family life. Its understanding of family stresses the primary functions and activities of families, such as providing for the health and well-being of family members; raising children; and sustaining the economy through the production, exchange and consumption of goods and services.