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Fixing Canada’s Divorce Act
… children who are subjected to the current litigative family law system often suffer from what the Agency describes as “damaged emotional development” due to the conflict and destruction of relationships with their own parents… in 1998, a federal Joint House-Senate Committee presented to Parliament a report, For the Sake of the Children. It proposed a more prescriptive approach to parenting after divorce, including an equal shared parenting presumption for good parents… The bill that’s currently before Parliament is wholly aligned with the recommendations of this report.
Tags: child care, disabilities, featured, ideology, mental Health, rights, women, youth
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Nightmare? I want a daycare on Elm Street
… the acute shortage of daycare spots, and the cost of those that do exist, forces parents to step onto a rickety scaffold… New legislation to tighten controls has been introduced in Ontario, but that’s not going to do anything for the crisis of access or affordability… A comprehensive program might be a tricky sell, considering the up-front costs, but not when you weigh the benefits, both in terms of children’s development and women’s participation in the work force.
Tags: budget, child care, featured, ideology, participation, standard of living, women
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Regulate unlicensed daycares, but keep a light touch
It is precisely because so many families choose [home daycare] – 80 per cent of children in daycare are at unregulated facilities – that government should take a closer look at how they operate, to see if there are any risks they pose to children’s welfare… thousands of unregulated home daycares in Ontario essentially operate in a regulatory vacuum. They are not subject to the same standards or inspections as their licensed counterparts.
Tags: child care, ideology, standard of living, women
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How marriage contributes to household inequality
What the marriage gap data tells us, in reality, is that married couples are doing much better economically than everyone else. Are we absolutely certain that these are the households that need a tax break? The families living in the bottom of the income distribution in Canada have seen no improvement in their standard of living over the past 35 years… If we really care about the welfare of families in this group what we really need is policies that allow unmarried households, particularly those with children, to have a standard of living that at least approaches those of married households.
Tags: child care, ideology, poverty, standard of living, tax, women
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Queen’s Park must strengthen Ontario’s child care supports
Unfortunately, only 40 per cent of people in Ontario who want a midwife can get one, and in many places in Ontario, midwifery care is not an option at all… If we can find a child care spot in a licensed centre it could cost between $1500 and $2000 per month.
The cost of child care is shocking,.. this is not an option for the one in 10 minimum wage workers in Ontario who barely earn $1500 each month.
Tags: child care, Health, ideology, poverty, standard of living, women
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A splitting tax headache
The unfairness in question is for “traditional” couples, i.e., in which one partner works only part-time or not at all so that the family’s whole income is mainly earned by the working partner, who likely faces a higher marginal rate and therefore pays more tax than if the identical income were split evenly between partners… Feminists respond to this unfairness argument with “Unfair yourself!”
Tags: budget, child care, economy, ideology, participation, standard of living, tax, women
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Nordic model best for prostitution law
Of the three options considered — legalizing, banning and adopting the so-called Nordic model — the last seems the least dire. It may actually deliver some benefits to prostitutes while prosecuting those who wish them harm… It is legal in Sweden to sell sex but not to buy it, and brothels and pimping are outlawed… This law… acknowledges an individual’s choice to sell sex. Yet it protects those who are trafficked and forced to work as sex workers… It is already illegal here to procure services from prostitutes under 18.
Tags: crime prevention, rights, standard of living, women
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Ontario needs to improve working conditions for home care workers
If Matthews wants the struggling home care sector to succeed, front-line health care workers must be treated and trained like professionals. Nothing less will do. Even with a hike to home-care’s minimum wage of $12.50, the industry’s working conditions, not to mention benefits, are dismal. And despite the fact that personal support workers (PSWs) are being asked to handle more complicated medical procedures, only basic training is required, leaving many scared of the jobs they’re told to perform. And that puts vulnerable patients at risk.
Tags: disabilities, Health, ideology, standard of living, women
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Family income splitting: A costly perk for the rich?
Such a move would be costly in terms of lost government revenues, will increase rather than diminish family income inequality, and is bad social policy… 86 per cent of families would get no benefit at all, and that 60 per cent of the benefits would go to the richest 5 per cent of families… family income splitting would cost about $3-billion a year in forgone federal government revenues, and about $2-billion more if the provinces followed suit.
Tags: budget, economy, ideology, standard of living, tax, women
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Five maps that put cancer’s global spread into focus
In some well-off Western countries, you’re likelier to get cancer. In less-developed countries, cancer is likelier to kill you… Canada… plac(ed) 12th in cancer incidence, with about 295 new cases for every 100,000 people and 64th in mortality, with about 103 deaths per 100,000… Lung cancer remains the most common – and deadliest – cancer in the world… Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women… The pattern of new breast cancer diagnoses and deaths in 2012 shows again that, when it comes to cancer, geography is destiny.
Tags: Health, poverty, standard of living, women
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