Webinar Jul 2023
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Media release May 2024
AIFS research supports latest findings on gender divide in working families
AIFS welcomes findings of a national survey that sheds light on the continuing gender divide in working families, providing further evidence that employers need to better support working parents to achieve work-life balance.
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Media release Jun 2024
An estimated one in four eligible mothers not taking up paid parental leave
An estimated 74% of eligible mothers, and 40% of eligible fathers were taking up government-funded paid parental leave prior to reforms.
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Commissioned report Dec 2019
Are children and adolescents getting enough sleep?
This chapter provides a picture of the sleep patterns of children and adolescents between the ages of 6 and 17 years old.
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Research report Nov 2016
Attitudes towards intergenerational support
Examines the views of Australians about the obligations of parents and their adult children concerning financial and accommodation support.
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Media release Oct 2020
Australian males drinking during adolescence linked to riskier drinking later on, finds new report
Young adult men are drinking alcohol at riskier levels than older men, and adolescent males are carrying early drinking habits with them into adulthood, according to research released today by the Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS).
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Research programs
Child Family Community Australia
An information exchange for practitioners, policy-makers and service providers working with children, families and communities.
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Research snapshot Jun 2020
Child wellbeing after parental separation
This research summary discusses the experiences and needs of young people whose parents have separated and have accessed the family law system.
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Research report Jun 2018
Children and young people in separated families: Family law system experiences and needs
This Research Report investigates the experiences and needs of young people whose parents have separated and have accessed the family law system.
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Commissioned report Oct 2016
Children living in “complex” households
Around 43 per cent of children under the age of 13 grow up in complex families.