BC Council for Families

Dr. Mark Holder, associate professor of psychology at UBC Okanagan, has recently released research on children's sources of happiness suggesting that many children have an unexpectedly sophisticated grasp of spirituality, and that they’re happier for it. This new research confirms the findings of Holder's 2008 study Spirituality and Happiness in Children, published in the Journal of Happiness Studies.

Co-parenting is on the rise in Canada.

While joint custody arrangements in which children spend equal time with each parent still occur in fewer than 10% of divorces, the numbers are steadily growing, according to Dr. Anne Marie Ambert of York University in Toronto. Dr Ambert, a recognized authority on divorce, remarriage and parent-child relationships, is the author of Divorce: Facts, Causes and Consequences, a recent study published by the Vanier Institute of the Family. Ambert points out that co-parenting arrangements confer benefits to both kids and parents as they weather the transitions of divorce and its aftermath.

Amidst almost daily news of cutbacks in the public service and community service organizations, the BC Council for Families has announced that due to significant decline in the level of provincial funding we receive, our organization has been forced to reduce its workforce in order to cut costs.