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Fatherhood Involvement Research Alliance

FIRA Salutes Fernand Lozier!

Fernand Lozier, a long-time champion of father involvement in Canada, has retired after a long and accomplished career in Canada’s public service with Health Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada. Fernand (pictured at right with Andrea Doucet) was father involvement’s  first “friend” in bureaucractic circles. He played a central enabling role in creating partnerships and securing funding for numerous father involvement projects related to research, training, knowledge dissemination and social marketing. His persistent efforts to bring researchers together to discuss a pan-Canadian father involvement research project were among the first steps that led directly to the development of the Father Involvement Research Alliance. To read more about Fernand's contributions to father involvement in Canada click here.



Call for Papers. World Congress of Sociology

Next year’s World Congress of Sociology, to be held in Gothenburg, Sweden, July 11- 17, 2010, will feature a session on fatherhood entitled, "Men, work and parenting."   Session organizers Linda Haas and Margaret O’Brien, are seeking papers that address linkages between men, their paid work outside the home and their parenting responsibilities. Papers that include diversity by race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, marital status and social class as well as those that cover more than one society are especially sought. To read more about this call for papers, click here.



Canadian Fathers by the Numbers

Did you know?

 

• that 38% of Canadian men between ages 15 and 64 are fathers living with dependent children

• that 25% of Canadian fathers were born outside of Canada?

• that of the Canadian teen fathers who reside with their children 58% are single parents. (most teen fathers do not reside with their offspring)

• that Canadian lone fathers are, on average, significantly less well off than their married and common-law counterparts.

 

 

These facts and many more can be found in Profiles of Fathers in Canada, by Zenaida Ravanera of the Population Studies Centre at the University of Western Ontario. This report was prepared as part of FIRA’s Demographic Profile of Canadian Fathers. To read Profiles of Fathers in Canada, click here.

 

 

Click here to read a longer version of Canadian Fathers By The Numbers on our website.



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