Marriage

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  Missing Marriages, Empty Baby Carriages

  Peter Jon Mitchell

  June 28, 2021

  Peter Jon Mitchell, Cardus Family Program Director, reports on the link between Canada’s severe baby-making problem and young Canadians increasingly choosing to delay or reject marriage.

  Wedding industry vendors are reporting a boom in bookings – or at least south of the border according to the Associated Press. Couples who waited out the pandemic are booking their big day, as are those who married during the pandemic but are now p...

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  Marriage Made Simply Sacred

  Rebecca Darwent

  July 17, 2019

  Convivium’s Rebecca Darwent finds comfort that her wedding this spring wasn’t about saying “yes” to the dress. It was about affirming before God a faithful life with her husband-to-be.

  An audible sigh of relief overwhelms me as I tuck my feet under a handmade quilt my godmother made as a wedding gift, still crisp and barely used, looking over at my husband who is eating breakfast from a shiny new bowl and spoon. 

  I am acutely aware...

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  Why is Sex Ed Silent About Marriage?

  Andrea Mrozek

  September 5, 2018

  Meet Ontario’s new old sex ed, same as Ontario’s old new sex ed, writes Cardus Family Director Andrea Mrozek. Meanwhile, Mrozek notes, the proven, enduring good of marriage gets crickets.

  If you consider Ontario’s new sex ed curriculum, and the controversy of its removal, consider that the old curriculum contained the same fatal flaw.

  This has nothing to do with what’s in the curriculum, but rather, what isn’t. In both documents there...

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  Speaking Up for Marriage

  Peter Jon Mitchell and Andrea Mrozek

  May 14, 2018

  New poll numbers show more than half of Canadians no longer believe marriage is necessary. But as Cardus Family’s Peter Jon Mitchell and Andrea Mrozek point out, leading Canadian voices backed by impeccable social science research are debunking that destructive myth.

  Canadian supporters of marriage are speaking up, and not a moment too soon. In a recent survey done by the Angus Reid Institute, about 56 percent of Canadians said “marriage is simply not necessary” to form a lifelong relationship. They went on to say when ...

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  The Social Assistance of Marriage

  Peter Jon Mitchell with Peter Stockland

  April 4, 2018

  In a new study on social assistance and marital decision-making in Canada, Cardus Family senior researcher Peter Jon Mitchell finds growing acceptance that getting married is a sound way to avoid going on the dole.

  Convivium: The newest Cardus Family publication is a literature review rather than a full-blown research paper. W...

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  Unmarried With Children

  Peter Stockland, with Andrea Mrozek, Peter Jon Mitchell

  February 20, 2018

  Cardus Family has unearthed a startling new statistic: fewer than two-thirds of Canadian children now have married parents. Program director Andrea Mrozek and senior researcher Peter Jon Mitchell tell Convivium how they discovered the number, and what it means for Canadian family life.

  Convivium: In its latest research report, Cardus Family has made public census data showing a record low...

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  Debating Data on Gay Marriage

  Peter Stockland

  August 4, 2017

  Convivium Publisher Peter Stockland reveals a new direction in the recently released family Census data.

  Last week’s release of census data on Canadian families proved that advocates for legalizing gay marriage were at least partly right.

  Proponents of what came to be characterized as “marriage equality” insisted, during the debates of the early 2000s, ...

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  At the Heart of Health, Continued

  Andrea Mrozek

  April 5, 2017

  In the second installment of a two part article, Cardus Family's Andrea Mrozek sits down with Dr. Sue Johnson, creator of a highly effective strategy for relationship repair called Emotionally Focussed Couples Therapy and author of several books, among them Hold Me Tight (2008) and Love Sense (2013).  Together, they discuss attachment, health, and relationship.

  Building on research released last fall by Cardus Family on the importance of emotional relationships to physical well being, program director Andrea Mrozek sat down with Dr. Sue Johnson to learn about a cutting-edge approach at the Ott...

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  At The Heart of Health

  Andrea Mrozek

  April 4, 2017

  Cardus Family's Andrea Mrozek sits down with Dr. Sue Johnson, creator of a highly effective strategy for relationship repair called Emotionally Focussed Couples Therapy and author of several books, among them Hold Me Tight (2008) and Love Sense (2013), to learn about a cutting-edge approach to emotional relationships and physical well being at the Ottawa Heart Institute..

  Building on research released last fall by Cardus Family on the importance of emotional relationships to physical well being, program director Andrea Mrozek sat down with Dr. Sue Johnson to learn about a cutting-edge approach at the Ott...

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  In Favour of Marriage or Afraid of Divorce?

  Ray Pennings

  November 30, 2011

  Kim Kardashian filing for divorce 72 days after her wedding was the hook for a substantial article on marriage in Macleans magazine last week. The three-pager, entitled "Young, divorced and stigmatized," suggested that society was heading in a "more marriage-minded direction," citing as evidence declining divorce rates and a more cautious approach to marriage.

  (M)any still place a high value in the traditional definition of marriage—even if it's the highly publicized marriage of a self-interested reality TV star.

   

  Kim Kardashian filing for divorce 72 days after her wedding was the...

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