Family Matters provides an inclusive picture of the variety of family life and family forms in Canada. The work rejects the vision of family history that, in focussing on the traditional, two-parent, heterosexual, Anglo-Saxon family, implicitly denies families that do not fit this paradigm as "other" or even "illegitimate." Family Matters includes material about the varied familial experience of our ethnically, culturally, and religiously diverse nation.