Research snapshot Sep 2017
Long hours and longings
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Our study shows that long hours, non-standard work times and work pressures have significant impact on how children view time spent with dad.
Research snapshot Sep 2017
Our study shows that long hours, non-standard work times and work pressures have significant impact on how children view time spent with dad.
Research snapshot Mar 2022
Looking back, looking forward presents a summary of findings on how Australian families experienced 2021 and their hopes for 2022.
Practice guide Jun 2024
This practice guide provides an overview of what uncertainty and uncertainty tolerance are and their significance to professional practice.
Facts and figures Mar 2023
Figures around marriages in Australia: marriage rate, age at first marriage, religious and civil weddings, and more.
Family Matters article Dec 2014
Family Matters article about measuring socio-economic status of women
Media release Jun 2023
A new report by the Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS) has found that young people are increasingly living with their parents well into their late teens and early twenties.
Research snapshot May 2016
Becoming a mother heralds a dramatic change in the lives of Australian women.
Media release May 2023
A new report by the Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS) has found that women are increasingly remaining employed when they take time off to have a baby, demonstrating the uptake of parental leave in recent years.
Media release Jul 2021
New research by the Australian Institute of Family Studies shows one in five Australian women changed their plans of having children because of COVID-19, and one in seven women indicated that COVID-19 likely impacted on when they would have children, with the majority of this cohort (92%) choosing to delay having children.
Family Matters article Oct 2009
Articles in this issue address the interaction of policies, services and institutions, and the vulnerable with the employment prospects of those in out-of-home care; the economic consequences for single-parent families of the changes to the child support and the Welfare-to-Work reforms; and how the Victorian legal system has responded to family violence.