This research report illustrates the complexity of family circumstances faced by children whose parents live apart due to relationship instability or breakdown, using…
This report examines the association between childhood poverty and a range of children’s developmental outcomes.
This report examines the association between family, neighbourhood and school level disadvantage and children’s cognitive and social outcomes.
aims to understand more about attendance patterns in primary school and their impact on academic achievement, using data from LSAC and NAPLAN.
Explores the prevalence of different types of family environments, and the influence of these environments on children's developmental outcomes.
Examines mothers' transitions into and out of work and between jobs of different types as children grow or as new children are born.
Drawing on data from LSAC this report examines the impact of joblessness and part-time work on the wellbeing of parents and their children.
This paper compares the wellbeing of children in married- and cohabiting-parent families.
This report investigates children’s experiences of having a ‘new father figure’ moving into their home and of having a biological father who does not live with them.