Traduction de «âge moyen des célibataires au mariage » (Français → Anglais) :

Being that the majority of Canadians believe that fundamental matters of social policy should be decided by elected members of Parliament and not the unelected judiciary, the petitioners ask Parliament to do all it can to ensure that the current legal definition of marriage as the voluntary union of a single male and a single female, as so defined and as it has always been known and legally affirmed, be preserved and protected, and that all measures, even to the point of invoking section 33 of the charter, the notwithstanding clause, be used to preserve and protect the current definition of marriage as between one man and one woman.

Whereas the majority of Canadians support the current legal definition of marriage as the voluntary union of a single male and a single female and whereas it is the duty of Parliament to ensure that marriage as it has always been known and legally affirmed in Canada be preserved and protected, therefore, the undersigned petition Parliament to use all possible legislative and administrative measures involving invoking section 33 of the charter, the notwithstanding clause, if necessary, to preserve and protect the current definition of marriage as between one man and one woman.

The real cause of the relatively high poverty among single mothers and older women is their lack of economic opportunities and independence during previous parts of their lives, especially during marriage.

At the same time, the average age of first marriage and the age at first birth have risen to 26.1 and 28.6 years, respectively.

Ms. Hedy Fry: I just want to speak to the issue of tradition and the fact that because traditionally marriage has been between a man and a woman and that marriage has all these ramifications we have come to expect of it over hundreds of years because obviously this religious component of marriage only came about in the Middle Ages I think we're talking about something that was a cultural institution well before it became a religious one.

Prof. John Richards: You and I are both middle-aged males, and we are probably both equally conscious of the feminist minefields in which we're walking as we start talking about single parenthood.