{"id":9442,"date":"2015-06-25T06:58:20","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T11:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=9442"},"modified":"2015-06-25T06:58:20","modified_gmt":"2015-06-25T11:58:20","slug":"2-income-families-nearly-doubled-from-1976-to-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=9442","title":{"rendered":"2-income families nearly doubled from 1976 to 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"story-headline\">\n<h3 class=\"story-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/business\/2-income-families-nearly-doubled-from-1976-to-2014-1.3125996\" target=\"_blank\">2-income families nearly doubled from 1976 to 2014<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"story-deck\"><strong>As Canadian families change, number of stay-at-home parents plunges, but more of them are dads<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Families with both parents working are a substantial majority in Canada, with 69 per cent of couples with a child under 16 years of age having two incomes, according to Statistics Canada.<\/p>\n<p>That contrasts sharply with 36 per cent of couples with a child under 16 having two working parents in 1976 and represents a 92 per cent increase.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/business\/child-care-affordability-varies-widely-across-canada-1.2829817\">Child-care affordability varies widely across Canada<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/income-splitting-what-it-is-and-who-benefits-1.2818396\">Income splitting: What it is and who benefits<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In Quebec, the proportion of families with a stay-at-home parent declined faster than anywhere in the country, from 59 per cent of families in 1976 to 13 per cent in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The Statistics Canada study based on data from the Labour Force Survey shows\u00a0the changes undergone by Canadian families in the past 38 years.<\/p>\n<p>The survey gathered data on 2.8 million families in both 2014 and 1976, as the number of Canadian families with children remained constant.<\/p>\n<h2>Living on 1 income<\/h2>\n<p>The influx of women into the workforce in the 1970s and 1980s is credited with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/business\/working-women-have-kept-canadian-economy-strong-imf-says-1.1390115\">boosting the prosperity of middle-class<\/a>\u00a0households.<\/p>\n<p>However, it is also true that few Canadian families can afford to live on one income as many did in 1976.<\/p>\n<p>That makes the cost of daycare a perennial issue for many families and means legislation such as the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/politics\/income-splitting-helps-fewer-than-1-in-6-families-pbo-says-1.2997972\">income-splitting tax break<\/a>\u00a0pushed through earlier this year may be tailored for the kind of Canadian family that is no longer in the majority.<\/p>\n<p>The share of couple families with children who had only a single earner declined from\u00a059 per cent in\u00a01976\u00a0to\u00a027 per cent in\u00a02014. That means about 736,000 couples across Canada, according to Statistics Canada.<\/p>\n<p>But in 2014, it was far more likely that a stay-at-home parent was the father than in 1976. About 11 per cent of families with a stay-at-home parent said it was dad who was home with kids, compared to two per cent in 1976.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2-income families nearly doubled from 1976 to 2014 As Canadian families change, number of stay-at-home parents plunges, but more of them are dads Families with both parents working are a substantial majority in Canada, with 69 per cent of couples with a child under 16 years of age having two incomes, according to Statistics Canada. 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