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As more fathers take a bigger role in caring for young children, the need for programs and services to support them increases.
Happy New Year from the BC Council for Families! We hope you had a relaxing holiday with your loved ones, and are refreshed for the year ahead in 2010.
Few father engagement programs have been systematically evaluated to figure out what it is that makes them effective.
In the 21st century, creating a family can include technological options as well as adoption and many other methods.

One in ten Canadians lives in poverty, and the cycle of poverty must be broken “once and for all” according to a report tabled in the Senate last week.
Fifteen years after paediatricians began recommending that babies be put to sleep on their backs, more than one third of pictures of sleeping babies in parenting magazines show them in inappropriate sleep posi
What is the right balance between structured and unstructured playtime for children and adolescents? Increasing numbers of parents are grappling with this dilemma on parenting blogs, in news articles, and in their homes.
In recent years we’ve seen increased attention on fathering in the popular media, the development of a new professional discourse about the importance of the involved father to healthy child development, nation