Policy and practice paper Oct 2015
Children's Contact Services
This paper describes the characteristics of families using Children’s Contact Services, and outlines key issues for service provision in this area
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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
Policy and practice paper Jun 2017
An exploration of strategies to engage and address issues for family members who are continuing to live with domestic violence.
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.
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".
Family Matters article May 2018
This paper describes the main elements of a recent budget standards study conducted by researchers at the Social Policy Research Centre (SPRC) at the University of New South Wales.
Submission Jun 2014
Submission based on two studies relevant to terms of reference of current Inquiry into Child Support.
Submission Sep 2018
Submission of findings relevant to the Inquiry into Intergenerational Welfare Dependence
Short article Aug 2016
Findings from a large research study on Australia's family law system tell a complicated story.
Research report Oct 2015
Compares the experiences of parents who had separated either before or after the family law reforms were introduced.