Foreword -- Executive summary -- Families are changing -- The balance of family policy tools -- benefit packages, spending by age and families with young children -- Fertility trends -- Reducing barriers to parental employment -- Promoting child development and child well-being -- Sole parents,...

This book considers how a wide range of policies, including tax/benefit policies, childcare policy, and employment and workplace practices help determine parental labour market outcomes and may impinge on family formation and ultimately the current and future labour supply. It covers Canada (in...

Finding a suitable work/family life balance is a challenge that all parents face. Some people would like to have (more) children, but do not see how they could match that commitment with their employment situation. Other parents are happy with the number of children in their family, but would...