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Biographies and family solidarity in Québec

2013; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 23; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/03906701.2013.771052

1469-9273

Marianne Kempeneers, Isabelle Van Pevenage,

Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies

Abstract In Québec, the 2004 survey Biographies et solidarités familiales (‘biographies and family solidarity in Québec’) was the first quantitative survey to deal with the question of the diverse forms of family solidarity as they have changed over time and in line with modifications in family, work, and public policies. Our purpose here is to present the survey itself along with a certain number of its results. The latter bear, on the one hand, on what we have termed Québec ‘family solidarity spaces’, referring by that to the structural data previous to forms of solidarity as we know them now and, on the other hand, on the changes in the provision of early childhood care over three generations. Keywords: (forms of) family solidaritybiographical approachentourageearly childhoodQuébec Notes 1. We wish here to thank Nicolas Thibault of the Institut National d’Études Démographique (INED, the French National Institute of Demographic Studies) who carried out the required operations when cooperating on the survey mentioned above, Biographies et solidarités familiales au Québec. 2. This section has been the subject of a publication in French (Kempeneers and Van Pevenage Citation2011). 3. Altogether, our surveys covered 2305 siblings; 419 of them have died. Many of them died young (at birth or at a very early age). 4. This map indicates the density of the residential locations of our Montréal subjects. It was prepared using the interactive atlas of the Agence des services sociaux de Montréal (Citation2009). 5. Québec is divided into 17 administrative regions: Bas St-Laurent, Saguenay, Capitale Nationale, Mauricie, Estrie, Cantons de l'Est, Montréal, Abitibi, Gaspésie, Chaudières-Appalaches-Beauce, Lanaudière, Laurentides, Montérégie, Centre-du-Québec, Laval, Côte Nord, and Gaspesie-Îles-de-la-Madeleine. 6. We have defined as adjourning boroughs all those adjacent to the reference borough. 7. We have retained here only those associations that are statistically significant (p-value < 0.05). 8. This section has been published in French: Kempeneers and Dandurand (Citation2009). 9. See note (6) above. 10. The term relevailles, which comes from the Catholic liturgy, is no longer used in France; it was a rite by which the parturient woman gave thanks to God. Since 1969, relevailles have been replaced by a blessing of the mother at the child's christening. In Québec, however, relevailles refers to the period when the mother is considered too tired to take care of her newborn baby, any other children, or her domestic activities. As it is a culture-specific feature, we have referred to it by the Québecois term. 11. Some of the data presented herein were used in a recent study on changes in child-minding strategies over time (Kempeneers and Thibault Citation2008).