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Printed from The Vanier Institute of the Family's website at www.vifamily.ca. © 2010.
The Future Families Project 
Abstract: How do Canadians young and old feel about family life today? How do they feel about marriage and divorce? How many want to be part of a “traditional” family—meaning a married woman and man with children—and how many aspire to a different household arrangement? How will these feelings and desires shape Canadian society in the future? In Canada today we have a lot of facts and figures about what families do, but we don’t know enough about how Canadians feel about family life, and what they want for the future. That’s why we commissioned a groundbreaking national survey to look into Canadian family values and aspirations. Almost 2,100 Canadians aged 18 and over participated in The Future Families Project: A Survey of Canadian Hopes and Dreams in 2003. Readers are free to reprint parts of this publication as background for conferences, seminars and classroom use with appropriate credit to The Vanier Institute of the Family. Citation in editorial copy for newsprint, radio and television is permitted. However, all other rights are reserved and therefore no other use will be permitted in whole or in part without written permission from The Vanier Institute of the Family. Reginald Bibby of the University of Lethbridge directed the Future Families Project. Dr. Bibby has monitored Canadian social trends for the past three decades through a series of national surveys of adults and teenagers—surveys he has written about in nine best-selling books. Copyright © 2004 The Vanier Institute of the Family Sections [in pdf format]:
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