中国国内的朋友提到北美,提到加拿大,往往会有一种“离婚率高、家庭不稳定”的先入之见,其实这未必是正确的。加拿大统计局最近一次公布全国离婚率的数据是在2010年,当时这个数据是38%,这个数据看似挺吓人,其实不论横向或纵向比较,都并非看上去那么严重。包括美国和加拿大在内的整个狭义北美,离结比率都是在二战后开始大幅攀升,到上世纪70-80年代达到高峰,此后便开始逐年下降。加拿大在这方 Mentions by domestic friends in China refer to North America. Mentioning Canada, there is often a preconceived “high divorce rate and instability of the family.” In fact, this may not be correct. Statistics Canada recently released data on the national divorce rate in 2010, when the figure was 38%. This figure may seem scary. In fact, neither horizontal nor vertical comparison seems to be so serious. Including the United States and Canada, the narrowly defined North America, the Cliff ratio began to rise sharply after World War II and peaked in the 1970s and 1980s, then began to decline year by year. Canada is here