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.
Family Matters article Dec 2014
Family Matters article about measuring socio-economic status of women
Family Matters article Dec 2014
This article looks at the various ways in which family formation pathways and the characteristics and functioning of families have changed over the decades in Australia, including trends in marriage, divorce and cohabitation, and the resulting rise in new forms of families, such as grandparent-headed families, same-sex-parented families, couples living apart together, and shared care.
Policy and practice paper Feb 2015
A broad overview of some of the key issues identified in the growing literature on paternal mental illness
Research report Dec 2015
What is the nature of living alone and what does it means to the individuals involved?
Research report Dec 2015
How does living alone influence social connection, health behaviours and subjective wellbeing?
Research snapshot May 2016
Explores the different phases of family, from the families we live with as children to the families we form as we grow older.
Research report Nov 2016
Explores how parents make decisions about work and care, especially when faced with shift work or inflexible job conditions.
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.