Australian Institute of Family Studies

Delivering quality research on family wellbeing

Families Week

AIFS has released a new fact sheet for Families Week Families working together: Getting the balance right. A publication commemorating 30 years of the Australian Temperament Project will also be released.

Child sexual abuse research
In an effort to support the work of the Royal Commission into the Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Australia we have collated resources and information for victim/survivors of child sexual abuse, practitioners/service providers and those interested in finding out more about support services.

Families working together: Getting the balance right
Australian Family Trends: This facts sheet, prepared for the 2013 National Families Week, highlights some of the ways in which time commitments vary over the life course, and how families manage these and other competing demands on their time. It draws on a range of Australian data to highlight some current trends.
Media release
Meeting children's needs when the family environment isn't always good enough
CFCA paper: This paper provides a theoretical basis to using a systems approach to working with vulnerable and high-risk families where children's needs are generally being met, but where parenting is at times not "good enough" or even unsafe.
Media release
Growing Up in Australia and Footprints in Time
Family Matters No. 91: The articles of this edition of Family Matters are mainly based on presentations from the Growing Up in Australia and Footprints in Time Longitudinal Study of Australian Children and Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children 2011 Conference.
Media release

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