Practice guide Sep 2010
Engaging fathers in child and family services
Provides ideas for practitioners and policy-makers about how to increase engagement of fathers in child and family services and programs.
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Practice guide Sep 2010
Provides ideas for practitioners and policy-makers about how to increase engagement of fathers in child and family services and programs.
Commissioned report Aug 2012
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.
Commissioned report Dec 2014
Presents findings from Wave 3, conducted in 2012 with 9,028 parents five years after separation.
Policy and practice paper Feb 2015
A broad overview of some of the key issues identified in the growing literature on paternal mental illness
Family Matters article Jun 2015
In this article, we report on responses to questions about the appropriateness of three particular care-time parenting arrangements in situations in which a parent is currently "threatening or violent towards the other parent after separation".
Policy and practice paper Oct 2015
This paper describes the characteristics of families using Children’s Contact Services, and outlines key issues for service provision in this area
Research report Oct 2015
Compares the experiences of parents who had separated either before or after the family law reforms were introduced.
Short article Aug 2016
Findings from a large research study on Australia's family law system tell a complicated story.
Research report Aug 2016
Explores the behaviour of separated parents by exploring the psychology of post-separation parental disputes and then interrogating three data sets.
Research snapshot May 2017
This Families Week fact sheet takes a close look at the data about "stay-at-home dads", to see if that perception matches reality.