Why have children?

What is an ethical debate to some is a more simple desire for many more

July 4, 2012 | by Lauren Klammer , Researcher, Institute of Marriage and Family Canada
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Endnotes

  1. Statistics Canada. (2011). Births and total fertility rate, by province and territory. Ottawa: Statistics Canada. Retrieved here.
  2. Statistics Canada. (2012). Population Projections: Canada, the provinces and territories. Ottawa: Statistics Canada. Retrieved here.
  3. Wilcox, B. and Cavallé, C. (2011, October 3). The sustainable demographic dividend: What do marriage and family have to do with the economy? Charlottesville: The Social Trends Institute. Retrieved here.
  4. World Values Survey. (2000). Ideal number of children. Retrieved here.
  5. Daniluk, J., Koert E. and Cheung, A. (2012). Childless women’s knowledge of fertility and assisted human reproduction: identifying the gaps. Fertility and Sterility, 97(2), pp. 420-426.
  6. Manning, W.D., Smock, P.J., and Majumdar, D. (2004). The relative stability of cohabiting and marital unions for children. Population Research and Policy Review, 23, pp. 135-159.
  7. For an extensive list of sources on this, see footnote two in Mrozek, A. and Walberg R. (2009). Private choices, public costs: How failing families cost us all. Ottawa: Institute of Marriage and Family Canada.