Some Canadian statistics published in Today’s Parent sourced from the Canadian Council on Social Development, Statistics Canada, the Vanier Institute and Workopolis. The average family size in most parts of the country is 3.1 persons, except in Nunavut where it is 4.4. The average age of Canada’s new moms is older than 29. (an increase of 2 years since the mid 1980s). The average length of time men spent doing household work per week increased from 2 hrs 31 min per day in 1998 to 3 hrs 4 min in 2012 Although most dads spend less time in child care, in one survey more than half said they’d take a 10 percent pay cut to spend 10 percent more time with their kids There are more same-sex parents in Quebec than in any other province or territory $90,400 is the average household income in Alberta $62,100 is the average household income in New Brunswick There are slightly more than half a million step families in Canada There haven’t been this many kids under four since the baby boom