by Mark Kennedy Montreal Gazette
OTTAWA — The sanctity of marriage as the bedrock of the Canadian family is steadily eroding, new census data released Wednesday reveal.
Instead, although married couples are still the norm — about two-thirds of families — their numbers are lagging and only increased by 3.1 per cent between 2006 and 2011.
In contrast, the number of common-law couples rose by 13.9 per cent and lone-parent families rose by eight per cent over the same period.
The shift means that common-law couples now account for 16.7 per cent of all families, and lone-parent families now represent 16.3 per cent of the total.
Meanwhile, in another trend reflective of the changing social landscape, same-sex couples are increasingly settling down together. Notably, the number of same-sex marriages tripled between 2006 and 2011, the first five-year period during which such couples could legally tie the knot in Canada.
These are some of the main findings of the data from the 2011 census compiled by Statistics Canada.
The society should try to make marriage easy, by reducing the economic and social worries of the parties involved.
I believe, some day family values of Islam, here, I do not mean cultural values of different Muslims, may come to rescue the marriages of host country Canada. Here is an article for starters:
Muhammad: The restorer of family values