Family Matters article Apr 1997
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Family Matters article Dec 2014
Growing Up in Australia: The Longitudinal Study of Australian Children
Entering adolescence and becoming a young adult
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Family Matters article Dec 2014
Introducing Growing Up in Australia's Child Health CheckPoint
A physical and biomarkers module for the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children
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Family Matters article Mar 2016
Payee mothers’ interactions with the Department of Human Services-Child Support
This article explores mothers' experiences with the child support scheme in Australia, highlighting how interactions with the Department of Human Services-Child Support (DHS-CS) agency can facilitate or undermine the receipt of child support.
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Family Matters article Jun 1999
Costs of children in Australia - update
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Family Matters article Sep 1998
Parental disability and the threat of child removal
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Family Matters article Jun 1998
Raising Children in a Socially Toxic Environment
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Family Matters article Nov 1990
Bird's-eye-view of Australia's children
A number of key statistics on Australian children and adolescents are presented in this paper, including facts on the child population, smoking, suicide, school retention, birth rates and death rates.
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Family Matters article Jun 2008
Growing Up in Australia
A brief overview of the background and design of the study
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Family Matters article Jun 2008
Parents' involvement in their children's education
Engaging families in the education of their children is increasingly viewed as important, with research finding that children achieve more when schools and families work together. This paper investigates the relationship between parental involvement and children's learning competence, with an analysis of Wave 2 data from Growing Up in Australia: the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC), for children in Years 1 and 2 at school.