Canadian families

-Physical maintenance and care of family members

Takes care of their children by taking them for checkups

-New family members through birth or adoption

-Socialization of children to adult roles

In 1900-1970 mothers would teach their daughter how to clean and "be a wife"

Now children are taught about the use of inappropriate words and slurs, to not criticize other peoples cultures, how to be respectful

-Social control of children

-Nurturance and love

-Production, consumption and distribution of goods and services

Buying their children food

Parent(s)- Love, nurture and care for children

Children- Grow up, start school

Love each other

Position in family

Birth order

1900-agricultural/victorian Era

Families lived on farms

Produced their own food,
clothing and utensils

1914-1918 World War 1

Men went to war

White women won the right to vote

1930's The Great Depression

Many families lost their homes

Loss of work

1939-1945 World War 2

Men went to war again

Women had to do "mens" jobs

1946 Baby boom

Marriage rates rose

Women started having many children

1950's The Atomic Age

Height of cold war

Invention of the TV

1960's

Divorce rates rose

Free love

Rock & roll and drugs became popular

1970-1980 Feminist mouvements

Women started going to post-secondary school

Women started having careers

There were less children

1980's

Common law families are recognized

Divorces are easier to get

Blended families are more common

1990's Computer Era

Cellphones became popular

Families spent more time on their devices than with each other

2000's Globalization

Same-sex marriage is legalized in 2005

Parental maternity leave is available to both parents

Smartphones were invented

2010's Globalization

Internet is part of everyday life

Social media is influencial

Almost everyone has smart devices

Couples

Common law families

Nuclear families

Blended families

Lone parent families

War

Divorce or separation

Birth/adoption/fostering of a child

Death in the family

New addition to the family

Loss of employment

Children begin school or leave for post-secondary education

Custody arrangements

-Physical maintenance and care of family members

Parents take us to the dentist to make sure we are healthy

-New family members through birth or adoption

My sisters were born, then I was born

-Socialization of children to adult roles

My parents give us chores and responsibilities to prepare us for our future

-Social control of children

-Nurturance and love

-Production, consumption and distribution of goods and services

Parents- they go to work and care for my sister and me

Children- we do chores and go to school while they are at work

My dad is the oldest, Mother is second oldest, 2 older sisters, and I’m the youngest

Me (sarah)

Given(me)- Student, daughter, sister

Chosen(me)- friend

My oldest sister

Given-Sister, daughter

Chosen- Wife (my sisters is married), friend,
actuary, university graduate

My second oldest sister

Given- Sister, daughter, student

Chosen- friend

Love one another

1990-2010

-Parents met in ~ 1990s in China

-My oldest sister was born in the 1990s

-Immigrated to Canada from China in 2002

-My second oldest sister was born in 2004

-I was born in Canada in 2006

-Grandparents helped out when me and my sister were borned

2010-present

-Moved from Toronto to Markham

-Grandparents lived 5 minutes from us

-Moved from Markham to Mississauga

-We had a dog but had to give her away

Nuclear family

My second oldest sister, parents and
I live in the same house together

New addition in the family;
pets, my sister and I being born

Oldest sister moved out for post-secondary
education and went to the United States

-Physical maintenance and care of family members

Takes care of their children by taking them for checkups

-New family members through birth or adoption

Many families will foster, adopt or go through a donor to have a child

-Socialization of children to adult roles

-Social control of children

Teach their children more about the LGBTQ community so they can spread awareness

-Nurturance and love

-Production, consumption and distribution of goods and services

Parents- Love, nurture and care for children

Children- Grow up, start school

Love each other

Position in family

Birth order

-Same-sex marriage was legalized on July 20, 2005, in Canada

-Some provinces allow up to 4 parents on birth certificates

-Activisms began in the 1970s

-In 1988 youths with LGBT parents begins the COLAGE (Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere) organization

-June 8, 1901, the first same-sex marriage in Spain, two women were married in a Spanish church

-Same-sex marriage became legal in Ontario in 2003

-Families started going to pride parades in the 1970s

Same-sex couples/families

non-binary partner couples

Common law families

Divorce or separation

Birth/adoption/fostering of a child

Death in the family

New addition to the family

Loss of employment

Children begin school or leave for post-secondary education

-Physical maintenance and care of family members

-New family members through birth or adoption

Some Couples would ask if they could adopt the next child from families with many children

-Socialization of children to adult roles

Elders teach the children their culture and the women/men teach them how to hunt or care for their family

-Social control of children

-Nurturance and love

Communities starting to heal so their children would have better lives than them

-Production, consumption and distribution of goods and services

Elders- teach the children

Mothers/women-maintain home fire

Fathers/men- protect families/warriors/providers

Children-center, rites of passages

Love each other

-1763 Royal Proclamation, recognized Indian nations, protected under the crown, Indian land could be purchased by settlers

-1830, attempts made to reclaim Indians from a state of “barbarism” and introduce them to “civilized” European habits

-1857, Indian men could be free from the status of “being” an Indian

-Residential school systems, taught European culture and made to forget their own culture

-1913 Residential school students coming home were disconnected from their culture, taught their children the same

-Intergenerational issues of disconnection

-Victims of residential schools endured abuse

-Communities started to heal from trauma so their children’s future would be better

-Developed programs to deal with household trauma

Extended family

Multiple generations live together

Circle: Elders, parents and children

Living in small communities

European colonization

Trauma, abuse, drugs and alcoholics

Children removed from households by child welfare

Adoption/births of a child

New additions to the family

Community heals

Custody arrangements

-Physical maintenance and care of family members

They take care of the needs of their children

-New family members through birth or adoption

The family in the video had many generations

-Socialization of children to adult roles

-Social control of children

The girl's mother told her that if she was being disrespected by someone who used inappropriate words then she could fight back

-Nurturance and love

-Production, consumption and distribution of goods and services

Parents- Love, nurture and care for children

Children- Grow up, start school

Love one another

Position in family

the main person in the video was the daughter in a multigenerational army family, she had 22 aunts/uncles

Birth order

they had multiple generations

-Denied reproduction rights when first allowed to immigrate to Canada

-Children would be raised by mothers they do not remember or extended family

-Segregated cemeteries

Family from video

-Lived there for over 200 years

-Multi-generational family

-Parents grew up on a military base

-Typical Canadian Army family

-Family in the military

-Lived in an all-white military base

-Lived in Halifax, Nova Scotia

-Grew up in the country

-Came from Truro, Nova Scotia

-Great grandfather part of the number 2 battalion

-George Alexander Downey fought in the 1st and 2nd world war

-Boxing family

-Dave Downey won the title at 19

-Uncle was mayor

-Family in the city council, and owned bars

-Their family had done multiple things for the history of Canada

Multigenerational

Nuclear families

Blended families

Lone parent families

Divorce or separation

Birth/adoption/fostering of a child

Death in the family

New addition to the family

Loss of employment

Children begin school or leave for post-secondary education

War

Moving cities

-Physical maintenance and care of family members

Takes care of their children by taking them for checkups

-New family members through birth or adoption

-Socialization of children to adult roles

Teach their children about the roles in their cultures

-Social control of children

-Nurturance and love

-Production, consumption and distribution of goods and services

Parents- Love, nurture and care for children

Children- Grow up, start school

Love one another

Position in family

Birth order

Different marginalized familie have different histories

Couples

Common law families

Nuclear families

Blended families

Lone parent families

-Divorce or separation

-Birth/adoption/fostering of a child

-Death in the family

-New addition to the family

-Loss of employment

-Children begin school or leave for post-secondary education

-Custody arrangements