BC Council for Families

by Marilee Peters
Acting Executive Director

Frances MacDougall is a woman with a mission. After years of working as a clinical nurse on the Burn Unit at BC Children’s Hospital, and seeing firsthand the serious trauma inflicted on young children by common household hazards, she knew that a public education program to teach parents about burn risks was needed. So she developed it.

by Marilee Peters
Acting Executive Director

The Internet has a new star: “Nine-shot Tommy Jordan.” On February 8, Jordan, an upset father in North Carolina, uploaded a video to YouTube of himself responding to an angry posting he had just discovered on his 15 year old daughter's Facebook wall. In that Facebook posting, which he read aloud in the video, his daughter detailed her frustration with what she considered the "unfair" aspects of her life -- the daily chores she was expected to complete, her parents' expectations, her lack of freedom. Her father disagreed with her analysis of her poor quality of life, and with her decision to share her unhappiness publicly using a laptop and software that he had paid for.

by Tina Albrecht
Acting Communications Manager

A dual income family can hardly make ends meet, purchasing a home is virtually out of the question, child care cost basically as much as a mortgage, pressure to perform at work leaves parents with little time to spend as a family. The realities facing today’s young Canadian families look nothing like I remember from my childhood.