Canadian Family Life : Status and Trends
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/article552
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Bulletin [Council for Social Service]
- Date
- 1946 September 2
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Date
- 1946 September 2
- Issue
- 128
- Page
- 1-12 p.
- Notes
- "The life of the nation can be no stronger that the life of its families. The tone of the family is dependent upon the moral and spiritual outlook of its members. The Church has fostered the highest ideals of family life. Today, under the moral disintegration so apparent in many areas of society, these are jeopardized. The Church is therefore deeply concerned. Moreover, due in part to this disintegration in morals, but also to social and economic maladjustments in society, the size of the family has rapidly lessened. Indeed, this phenomenon presents a distinct threat to the existence of some racial and social groups. At the Annual Meetings in 1942 the members of the Council and of the Executive Council of General Synod asked that information about this be made available to our Church people. Since the Government has recently begun a careful study of the matter and is making information public, we are able to present some factual material very pertinent to the whole question. We believe that this presents a distinct challenge to Christian teachers and leaders for more detailed education on Christian lines: a challenge also to Church people generally to regard their personal responsibilities in these vital matters". -- Foreword.
- Contents: Foreword / W.W. Judd -- The Canadian Family, and Family Life -- Appendix : Christian teaching regarding marriage (Taken from "Home and Family Life" a booklet published by the British Council of Church, 1943) -- Pertinent Books in the Council's Library.
- Section on "The Canadian Family" includes sections: Summary [of Statistics re Marriage, Divorce, Live Births, Illegitimate Births], Canada -- Education -- Trends in Canadian Family Size -- Summary -- External Factors Conditioning the Family.
- "Part of the Resolution adopted by the Executive Council in 1942 reads as follows: `The Council views with great concerns the lessening proportion of the Anglo-Saxon to the non-Anglo-Saxons in the population of Canada and urges that there should be continually brought before our Anglo-Saxon people the privilege and opportunity of helping to preserve British ideals and influence in our country which larger families make possible'."
- Subjects
- Family - Canada
- Family - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Family - Canada - Statistics
- Family size - Canada
- Family life education - Canada
- Family life education - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Population - Canada
- Population - Religious aspects - Anglican Church of Canada
- Location
- General Synod Archives