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Profiling Canada's Families III cover

Future Families Project - cover

THE VANIER INSTITUTE OF THE FAMILY DEFINES FAMILY AS:

....any combination of two or more persons who are bound together over time by ties of mutual consent, birth and/or adoption or placement and who, together, assume responsibilities for variant combinations of some of the following:
  • Physical maintenance and care of group members
  • Addition of new members through procreation or adoption
  • Socialization of children
  • Social control of members
  • Production, consumption, distribution of goods and services, and
  • Affective nurturance — love

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