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Equal shared parenting — best for parents, best for children
There are now over 30 large-scale studies over the past decade that demonstrate significantly better outcomes for children and parents in shared parenting arrangements… the stated preference of parents and children themselves… The current adversarial system in family law is unsustainable.
Tags: child care, ideology, rights, standard of living, women, youth
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Ontario falling down on employment equity for visible minorities
More needs to be done to remove structural barriers within the labour market that lead to inequitable access to employment. Yet, none of the three parties have offered any policy initiatives to address discrimination in the workplace or to eliminate artificial barriers to employment for racialized communities and other under-represented groups… Also missing… are any measures to address the growing racialization of poverty
Tags: ideology, Indigenous, multiculturalism, participation, poverty, rights, standard of living, women
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‘Equal shared parenting’ law doesn’t put kids first
Instead of saying, as Bill C-560 does, that “every child has the right to know and be cared for by both parents,” why not add the words “to the best of their ability”? As they do now, courts should evaluate each case on the individual facts, instead of starting from a false presumption that parents can and should parent “equally.”
Tags: child care, ideology, rights, standard of living, women, youth
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After a divorce, equal parenting rights should be the norm
In 1999, a… Joint House-Senate committee report, entitled “For the Sake of the Children,” offered recommendations whose spirit is encapsulated in Bill C-560, which will move to second reading in Parliament on March 25. If passed, Conservative MP Maurice Vellacott’s private member’s bill will serve to amend the Divorce Act to create a rebuttable presumption that equal shared parenting supports the best interests of children whose parents are separating.
Tags: child care, ideology, mental Health, rights, standard of living, women, youth
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Safe and affordable daycare starts with better policy
… a minimal increase of spots across licenced daycares is a small solution to a much larger problem. A more effective and long-term solution requires the intervention from all levels of government, employers and workplaces, and the broader residential community… Federal, provincial, and municipal governments must immediately prioritize childcare, and provide funding for additional licenced care facilities.
Tags: child care, economy, ideology, participation, standard of living, women
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How ‘One-Stop’ Care Lifts New Moms from Addiction
Twenty years ago… pregnant women living with addiction would arrive at hospital emergency rooms in labour, having received no prenatal care. A social worker would usually apprehend the baby immediately following birth… But the popularity of… multidisciplinary community health programs has grown, and the reality is much different for such mothers today… Outside cities, however, programs like these simply don’t exist
Tags: child care, Health, mental Health, participation, poverty, standard of living, women
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Parliament fails aboriginal women
All that remained of the original report was its once-poignant title: Invisible Women: A Call to Action. For the families of the victims, it was an enormous let-down. For human rights activists it was yet another demonstration of the Conservative government’s refusal to stand up for vulnerable minorities. For aboriginal women it was a devastating blow. The police had failed them, the courts had failed them and now their quest for justice had been spurned by the government of Canada.
Tags: crime prevention, ideology, Indigenous, poverty, rights, standard of living, women
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Prostitution is nothing more than work. Treat it that way
The thickets of morality, judgment and history have grown so thick around sex work that it’s hard to hack away the rhetoric and cut to the heart of the issue: How to provide a safe, regulated framework where the sellers and buyers of a commodity can meet and make their exchanges in peace, and where neither party is coerced or exploited.
Tags: crime prevention, Health, ideology, mental Health, rights, women
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The ‘girl effect’ reduces inequality, but we can’t count on it forever
Women’s share of the Canadian job market has climbed steadily, in response to economic calamity… It’s just over 50% today. We’re trailing men in self-employment, but that, too, is changing. Women now play a bigger role in the paid labour force in Canada than in the United States, and we tend to get paid better than our American counterparts, helping us offset inequality more here than there… If the next generation is not to lose ground, businesses and governments are going to have to do more heavy lifting too.
Tags: economy, standard of living, women
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Toronto research centre takes a deeper look at domestic violence
… Agencies serving victims of domestic violence often fail to work together, leaving women to run from place to place to rebuild their lives… aboriginal women are four times more likely to experience domestic violence than their non-aboriginal counterparts… ethnic and cultural factors… accounted for only half the discrepancy. The rest was explained by poverty, poor education and deleterious forms of self-medication (alcohol and drugs).
Tags: crime prevention, housing, Indigenous, mental Health, multiculturalism, poverty, women
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