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Guiding social behaviour


Ensuring societal values and norms are respected
Influencing behaviour of family members to help support, strengthen, and maintain their wellbeing and their relationships with others.
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Research summaries / September 7, 2023
Research Snapshot: Parents, Homeschooling, and Relationship Conflict During COVID-19
Highlights from a study on how providing homeschooling during COVID affected parents
View resourceArticles / February 4, 2016
(Still) Eating Together: The Culture of the Family Meal
Paul Fieldhouse For most Canadians, eating is a daily event so routine, so ordinary that it is taken for granted. But it is also a central part of social relationships and cultural rituals, as well as a symbolic and a material means of coming together. Across cultures and time, food sharing is an almost universal […]
View resourceArticles / November 6, 2017
Health Care Experiences of Military Families of Children with Autism
Download this article in PDF format. Heidi Cramm, Ph.D. Military families in Canada are highly mobile, relocating three to four times more often than their civilian counterparts.1 This mobility has been found to complicate access to health care for these families, most of whom live off-base (85%, compared with only 20% in the mid-1990s) and […]
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Physical maintenance and care of family members

Addition of new family members

Socialization of children

Guiding social behaviour

Producing, consuming, and distributing goods and services

Love and emotional nurturance
View other family functions:
Physical maintenance and care of family members

Addition of new family members

Socialization of children

Guiding social behaviour

Producing, consuming, and distributing goods and services
