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Octavius Hite
Joined: 28 Jan 2004
Location: Househunting, looking for a new bunker from which to convert the world to homosexuality.
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 Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 3:09 pm Post subject: Married people outnumbered for first time: census |
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This is why Canada rocks!
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/09/12/census-families.html
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Married people are in the minority in Canada for the first time, according to census information released Wednesday by Statistics Canada.
More Canadian couples, like Montrealers Sebastien Ross and Nancy Mercier, are remaining unmarried while raising children. More Canadian couples, like Montrealers Sebastien Ross and Nancy Mercier, are remaining unmarried while raising children.
The data shows 51.5 per cent of people over age 15 were unmarried in 2006, marking the first time married people have been outnumbered in the census, which began nationally in 1871.
In the last census, in 2001, 49.9 per cent were unmarried.
The details on marital status were part of a package of census data released about Canada's families, living arrangements and households. Statistics Canada calls this information its "family portrait" of Canadians.
Census highlights include:
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* For the first time, there were more families without children (42.7 per cent) than with children (41.4 per cent).
* The number of common-law families surged 18.9 per cent since 2001, to nearly 1.4 million families.
* Common-law families now make up 15.5 per cent of families, while 20 years ago, they only represented 7.2 per cent.
* Twenty-six per cent of families with children are headed by a single parent.
* Of the 1.4 million single-parent families, about 20 per cent are headed by men. The number of men at the head of single-parent families is growing more than twice as fast as the number of women.
Statistics Canada uses the term "families" to define a variety of households � couples (married or common law) who don't have children, couples who have children and an adult with at least one child.
A child, according to Statistics Canada, can be a step-child, an adopted child or even a grandchild who is cared for by their grandparents. A child must be living in the household.
Rosemary Bender, a spokeswoman for Statistics Canada, told CBC News that the drop in marriage numbers is partially due to the growing number of common-law relationships.
"More and more Canadians are entering into these types of relationships," she said.
She said common-law couples are now found across all age groups, with people in their early 60s entering into common-law relationships at the most rapid rate of all age categories.
Bender also noted that the number of couples without children has surpassed the number of couples with children.
She said this is due, in part, to the fact that people are having fewer children, but also because of the aging population. Baby boomers are now finding themselves to be empty nesters, she said.
Same-sex marriage counted for 1st time
The census, for the first time, counted same-sex married couples, reflecting the legalization of same-sex marriage in Canada in 2005.
Same-sex couples applauded the change.
"It's absolutely significant," Gemma Schlamp-Hickey said from St. John's, Nfld., where she lives with her wife, Wendolyn Schlamp-Hickey.
"Today I feel completely validated as a Canadian and as a family in Canada."
The census recorded 45,345 same-sex couples in Canada, of whom 7,465 (16.5 per cent) were married.
Half of all the same-sex couples live in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver.
Same-sex couples make up 0.6 per cent of all couples in Canada, comparable to the ratio in Australia and New Zealand.
Lone-parent families struggle with poverty
Lone-parent families have been a phenomenon since the early 20th century, with rates in the 1930s almost as high as they were in 2006.
However, the reasons children are being raised by single parents has changed, Statistics Canada says.
In the past, parents were left widows because of lower life expectancy rates and wars, said Anne Milan, a senior analyst with Statistics Canada. In 2006, divorce rates and decreasing taboos about having children out of wedlock played a role.
Regardless of the reasons, financial struggles are a common thread among single-parent families. In 2005, the median household income for two-parent families in Canada was $67,600. For lone-parent families, it was $30,000.
"The problem is that you have only one breadwinner, when that breadwinner is employed at all," said Anne-Marie Ambert, professor emeritus of sociology at York University in Toronto. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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Another interesting stat, for the first time overweight people outnumber underweight people in the world.
SciAm had an interesting thing that America produces 3,900 calories of food for every human in America. Americans don't eat 3,900 calories, mind you. That's just how much is available for consumption. Another interesting stat is food as a percentage of a person's budget is at an all time low.
So given a 2,000 calorie a day diet, food at all time low prices, and a vast surplus, what is a food retailer to do? You can't convince the bulk of consumers to buy more expensive food when there are so many food producers offering cheaper alternatives. The only thing you can do is to convince Americans to consume more. Ah ha! Hence why everything is super sized these days. |
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stevemcgarrett
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| Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 6:56 pm Post subject: |
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OH exclaimed:
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| This is why Canada rocks! |
No, this is just further indication of why Canada is heading toward moral degeneracy.
People should get married, if only in a civil ceremony.
This business of having "life partners" which is catching on in the U.S. too is yet further evidence of a disrespect for traditional social institutions and an unwillingness to participate in the social contract.
For someone who lives in Korea by choice, it must really gall you OH that the overwhelmingly majority of Koreans (and Asians) need no reminder that sometimes social obligations outweigh individual perogatives.
But then you'd probably relish a a return to Caligula's era. |
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thepeel
Joined: 08 Aug 2004
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| Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 7:28 pm Post subject: |
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[quote="stevemcgarrett"]OH exclaimed:
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No, this is just further indication of why Canada is heading toward moral degeneracy.
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Actually Steve, no. While I'm not a cheerleader for my Canadian home team in any way, I strongly disagree that Canada is heading towards moral degeneracy. I'm suprised at how civil and mature it is in certain respects.
Religious morals are faux morals anyways. |
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contrarian
Joined: 20 Jan 2007
Location: Nearly in NK
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| Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 7:29 pm Post subject: |
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| The state of Utah has the highest percentage of married people in the US, near highest birthrate in the US and the highest "natural" population increase. |
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Alyallen
Joined: 29 Mar 2004
Location: The 4th Greatest Place on Earth = Jeonju!!!
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| Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 7:34 pm Post subject: |
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| The state of Utah has the highest percentage of married people in the US, near highest birthrate in the US and the highest "natural" population increase. |
Of course they do. The mormons believe that they are obligated to have as many children as possible in order to bring more souls into the morom faith. So naturally, they marry at high rates and have far more children than other people. Put them all in 1 state and tada! you have your interesting factoid for the day...
Edit: Just in case you thought I made that bit of info up...
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As each new baby is born on the new planet (earth), a spirit child of the heavenly father is sent from his planet to inhabit the body of the new baby (earthly tabernacle). Since the spirit child is the size of an adult human and earthly babies are so small, there seems to be a great problem. There is no mention as to how this problem is solved on the planet of the heavenly father, but on the earth, somehow the spirit child is contracted or shrunk until it fits inside the body of the human infant. This seems to be a very convoluted action, because in the process the memory of the spirit child is removed to allow the spirit body to become smaller. As a result, human beings have no memory of their "pre-existence" with their father in heaven.
Once the earthly child is born and infused with the spiritual child of the heavenly father (the human spirit), then that child throughout its life must follow the tenets of the Mormon religion so that after death and resurrection he can be exalted to a god, have many wives on his own planet and produce spiritual children who clothe other intelligences with a spiritual body. He then organizes planets just like his heavenly father did and sends his sons to populate them as Adams and Eves. This process has been going on from eternity past and will continue through eternity future and is called the "eternal progression". |
http://www.ondoctrine.com/1mormo17.htm |
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contrarian
Joined: 20 Jan 2007
Location: Nearly in NK
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Alyallen:
That was an evangelical anti-Mormon cite you used. What was said was very inaccurate. Its sort of like you telling me what I believe, you don't really know.
You forgot about the near Mormon majority in Idaho and large minorites in Wyoming, Nevada and Arizona. One of my friends and his wife had 13 children. Two medical doctors, two (one female) dentists, an MBA accountant, a chemist, a pharmacist and a female army officer. |
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mindmetoo
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Octavius Hite
Joined: 28 Jan 2004
Location: Househunting, looking for a new bunker from which to convert the world to homosexuality.
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Thanks McGarrett, but I'll take the country that gives everyone healthcare, doesn't start illegal/immoral war(s), doesn't discriminate, doesn't abandon whole cities, and protects all its citizen's rights.
Damn immoral Canadians!!!!
Go Jesus!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Go Breeders!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Go USA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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thepeel
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| Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 12:27 am Post subject: |
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| And so dies a perfectly interesting thread. How many USA = Bad threads are going at any point, I wonder? |
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Alyallen
Joined: 29 Mar 2004
Location: The 4th Greatest Place on Earth = Jeonju!!!
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| Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 12:49 am Post subject: |
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Alyallen:
That was an evangelical anti-Mormon cite you used. What was said was very inaccurate. Its sort of like you telling me what I believe, you don't really know.
You forgot about the near Mormon majority in Idaho and large minorites in Wyoming, Nevada and Arizona. One of my friends and his wife had 13 children. Two medical doctors, two (one female) dentists, an MBA accountant, a chemist, a pharmacist and a female army officer. |
I was at work and in a rush...my apologizes. I learned about this subject in college not from that website. You're Mormon? I'm puzzled about your line
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| its sort of like you telling me what I believe, you don't really know. |
I'm not a Mormon and I've only met a handful in my lifetime. I was just pointing out why your little stat makes sense...And what do their kids professions have to do with anything? I wasn't taking a shot at the Mormon faith. I personally don't care about their religion or anyone else's for that matter. I was just trying to add a bit of info to your statistic. |
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Julius
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 5:44 am Post subject: |
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I wonder when that headline will be in the Korean media. A 100 years maybe? |
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Octavius Hite
Joined: 28 Jan 2004
Location: Househunting, looking for a new bunker from which to convert the world to homosexuality.
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| Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 6:19 am Post subject: |
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| Again, if you compare Canada (and its apparent carnality and anti-religion craziness) to those countries who consider themselves "religious and moral" we win hands down. Its our acceptance and secularism that makes us successful. The world tried "God" and "religion", that didn't work. Now its time to try science, rule of law and equality. |
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seoulshock
Joined: 12 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 7:52 am Post subject: |
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| I read something about 6 months ago stating the same thing in America -- more unmarried couples than married ones... |
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Harpeau
Joined: 01 Feb 2003
Location: Coquitlam, BC
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| Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 9:17 am Post subject: Re: Married people outnumbered for first time: census |
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[quote="Octavius Hite"]This is why Canada rocks!
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2007/09/12/census-families.html
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| The data shows 51.5 per cent of people over age 15 were unmarried in 2006, marking the first time married people have been outnumbered in the census, which began nationally in 1871. |
15 What's with that?!  |
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