Family roots : British Columbia's changing families

By understanding the changes that have taken place and anticipating the changes that are likely to come, government can ensure that the role we play is targeted, effective and meaningful for the citizens of the province. [...] Over the past fifty years, British Columbian families have seen an increase in the level of family incomes, thanks to both increased wage levels and a dramatic increase in the proportion of women in the workforce. [...] Family Roots: B. C.’s Changing Families 5 With more time spent at Throughout the ups and downs, B. C. continued to have work — and increased among the highest incomes in Canada, due to higher increases child care needs — many in wages and tax reforms that helped to put more money in the pockets of B. C. families. [...] Although the single-earner nuclear family (where it was almost always the dad that worked) was the dominant family model in the 1960s, women started to enter the workforce in greater numbers especially in British Columbia, where almost half of married women were working at the end of the decade. [...] By the 1980s, dual-earner families were the most common form of family and by the end of the decade, almost three-quarters of married women worked.