Family Matters article Sep 1998
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Policy and practice paper Apr 1999
Community-based approaches in preventing child maltreatment
Review of theoretical constructs relating to child abuse prevention, health promotion strategies and the development of healthy communities.
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Family Matters article Sep 1999
Research in premarriage education
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Family Matters article Sep 1999
Developing a national family policy
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Family Matters article Sep 1999
Is the Australian family becoming an endangered species?
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Family Matters article Sep 1999
The Commonwealth Government's approach to family policy
This article outlines the government's objectives and achievements in family policy and reveals that future directions for family policy will focus on prevention and early intervention with a view to strengthening families.
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Family Matters article Sep 1999
Welfare reform in Britain, Australia and the United States
This article considers whether Britain and Australia will eventually have to ask the same tough question that the US has faced: do we want to defend the right of lone parents to choose not to work, or do we really want to reduce the levels of welfare dependency?
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Family Matters article Sep 1999
Welfare dependency and economic opportunity
In this paper, the author criticises and evaluates Lawrence Mead's 'Welfare reform and the family', and offers a British perspective on welfare dependency and economic opportunity.
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Family Matters article Sep 1999
Welfare reform and the family
This article provides an overview of papers presented, and of debate around reform of the welfare and social security systems at the forefront of political debate in many western nations, including Australia.
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Family Matters article Mar 2000
How children view their parents' divorce