haracterized by controversies concerning single parent adoptions, adoption by homosexual couples, and the disclosure of birth parent information to older adoptees (Melichercik, 1987).
Programs designed to supplement parental care are concerned with the provision of day care and homemaker services, and with income supplementation (Melichercik, 1987). Governmentally supported day care services were first provided in Canada during the Second World War, as an incentive for women to enter the workforce (Melichercik, 1987). Under this program, grants were offered by the federal government to the provincial governments for the establishment of day care services. Only Ontario took advantage of the offer, and, when the federal government discontinued the program after the end of the war, the Ontario government continued the program with provincial funding. Gradually, through the 1950s and 1960s, most of the other provinces implemented some sort of governmentally funded day care programs. In the con
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