Custody, Access, and Child Support in Canada: Putting Children's Interests First
This consultation paper provides a forum for discussion and feedback about parenting and child support after the separation or divorce of a couple.
• Category: Divorce and Remarriage > Divorce
• Department of Justice Canada • March 01, 2001

Marriage and Welfare Reform: The Overwhelming Evidence that Marriage Education Works
This article looks at the effects of the 1996 welfare reform law to strengthen and increase the number of two-parent families in the United States.
• Category: Divorce and Remarriage > Divorce
• The Heritage Foundation • October 25, 2002

Why Religion Matters: The Impact of Religious Practice on Social Stability
This paper argues that religion serves to preserve marriage and sound moral judgement while discouraging social ills such as crime, divorce, cohabitation, suicide, out-of-wedlock births, and drug abuse.
• Category: Divorce and Remarriage > Divorce
• The Heritage Foundation • January 25, 1996

Questioning the Paternity of Marital Children
This paper discusses the approaches that courts and legislatures are taking with regards to disestablishing the paternity of children born within a marriage.
• Category: Divorce and Remarriage > Divorce
• Center for Law and Social Policy • April 01, 2003

Stress In America
This survey explored the amount and type of stress Americans experience as well as its effects on their health, work and relationships.
• Category: Divorce and Remarriage > Divorce
• American Psychological Association • October 24, 2007

Encouraging Marriage and Discouraging Divorce
This paper describes initiatives, both government-based and private/religious, aimed at reducing divorce and encouraging strong marriages.
• Category: Divorce and Remarriage > Divorce
• The Heritage Foundation • March 26, 2001

Policy Responses to Couple Conflict and Domestic Violence: A Framework for Discussion
This document discusses public policy responses to domestic conflict, such as couple education, coparenting education, programs for abusive partners, and responsible fatherhood programs.
• Category: Divorce and Remarriage > Divorce
• Center for Law and Social Policy • February 01, 2002

The Effect on Divorce of Legislated Net-Wealth Transfers
This paper examines the legislated guidelines for child support payments in Canada and whether or not overcompensation creates financial incentives for couples to divorce.
• Category: Divorce and Remarriage > Divorce
• Oxford University Press • September 15, 2006

No-Fault Divorce in Canada: Its Cause and Effect
This paper provides a good summary and analysis of no-fault divorce legislation in Canada.
• Category: Divorce and Remarriage > Divorce
• Elsevier Science • 1998

Same-Sex Unions and Divorce Risk
This briefing profiles research on same-sex unions in Sweden.
• Category: Divorce and Remarriage > Divorce
• Institute for Marriage and Public Policy • May 3, 2004

Divorce: Facts, Causes, and Consequences
This paper examines and interprets Canadian divorce statistics and trends up to 2003.
• Category: Divorce and Remarriage > Divorce
• The Vanier Institute of the Family • 2005

Divorce Law: Questions and Answers
This brochure provides information on divorce and divorce-related issues in Canada.
• Category: Divorce and Remarriage > Divorce
• Department of Justice Canada • 2006

Why Congress Should Ignore Radical Feminist Opposition to Marriage
This article provides a historical review of feminism, as well as relevant research on marriage and family, ...
• Category: Divorce and Remarriage > Divorce
• The Heritage Foundation • June 16, 2003

It's All in the Past: Exploring the Repercussions of Parents' Early Conjugal and Parental Histories on the Family Life Course of their Children
This study looks at parental union status before and after the birth of a child in order to determine the likelihood of parental separation.
• Category: Divorce and Remarriage > Divorce
• Human Resources and Skills Development Canada • January 01, 2002

Learning, Family Formation and Dissolution
This paper investigates the effect that educational attainment has on people's decisions about marriage and childbearing, as well as on their risk of experiencing a divorce.
• Category: Divorce and Remarriage > Divorce
• The Centre for Research on the Wider Benefits of Learning • June 01, 2002

Canadian Attitudes on the Family
This survey asked a broad range of questions dealing with all aspects of the attitudes of Canadians toward marital and family satisfaction, work/family balance, taxation, family size, the impacts of cohabitation, divorce, same-sex marriage, parenting and the impact of children on marital satisfaction, and the significance of religion.
• Category: Divorce and Remarriage > Divorce
• Focus on the Family (Canada) • June 01, 2002

Children and Divorce: A Snapshot
This document looks at the short-term, intermediate, and long-term effects that divorce has on various aspects of the lives of the children involved and discusses factors that can mediate these effects.
• Category: Divorce and Remarriage > Divorce
• Center for Law and Social Policy • October 01, 1998

Report on the Demographic Situation in Canada 2003 and 2004
This paper provides a wide range of Canadian demographical information covering statistical data on fertility, mortality, immigration, marriage, divorce and abortion.
• Category: Divorce and Remarriage > Divorce
• Statistics Canada • June 2006

The State of Our Unions 2006
This paper explores the cultural shift away from childbearing to childlessness and evaluates the causes and outcomes of this shift.
• Category: Divorce and Remarriage > Divorce
• The National Marriage Project • July 2006

Till Death Do Us Part? The Risk of First and Second Marriage Dissolution
This article based on findings from the General Social Survey examines factors contributing to the dissolution of first and second marriages in Canada.
• Category: Divorce and Remarriage > Divorce
• Statistics Canada • Summer 2006

Custody, Access, and Child Support: Findings from the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth
This report examines custody and living arrangements, access to the non-custodial parent, and the availability of child support for children of separated parents in Canada.
• Category: Divorce and Remarriage > Divorce
• Department of Justice Canada • 1999

Dispute Resolution in the Family Court
This report suggests changes to conciliation processes in the New Zealand Family Court ...
• Category: Divorce and Remarriage > Divorce
• New Zealand Law Commission • March 01, 2003