Moving On: The Expansion of the Family Network After Parents Separate

2004-FCY-9E

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[1] A panel survey conducted jointly by Human Resources Development Canada (HRDC) and Statistics Canada.
[2] It is, for example, still impossible to distinguish stepfamilies from other two-parent families in the census.
[3] Data problems meant that the analysis could not be extended to the third cycle.
[4] These terms are used interchangeably, partly to acknowledge the fact that the mother's or father's new partner may not be perceived, or perceive themselves, as a stepparent.
[5] Approximately 2800 children aged 0–13 years at Cycle 2.
[6] To reduce costs, the longitudinal sample was reduced from 22,831 children (Cycle 1) to 16,903 (Cycle 2).
[7] The sum of all these children whose parents were living together in 1996–97, or who had lived together at some point after their birth and then separated: 225+43+30+33+44+42=417/100=42%
[8] Sample size (after exclusion of missing data): 1304 children whose father had formed a new union, and 1120 children whose mother had formed a new union.
[9] The coefficient for stepmother families (child lives with father and spouse/partner) is not significant, possibly because of the small number of children in this situation.
[10] PMK's education is the mother's education in approximately 90 percent of cases.
[11] See Divorce Act s. 15, and various provincial and territorial legislation establishing obligations of those who "stand in the place of a parent." Also referred to as In Loco Parentis laws.