Family Matters article Sep 1999
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Family Matters article May 2010
Child support and Welfare to Work reforms
Family Matters article on economic consequences for single-parent families of child support and Welfare to Work reforms
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Family Matters article Mar 2011
Care-time arrangements after the 2006 reforms
This article examines four issues: the prevalence of different care-time arrangements in families that experienced parental separation after July 2006; parents' views about the flexibility and workability of their arrangements; characteristics of families with different care-time arrangements; and the strength of the relationship between child wellbeing on the one hand, and care-time arrangements and family dynamics on the other.
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Family Matters article Mar 2011
The AIFS evaluation of the 2006 family law reforms
Family Matters No. 86, 2011 - This article outlines the key research questions and findings from the evaluation
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Family Matters article Apr 2011
Think Family
This paper outlines a new framework 'Think Family', which includes a coordinated support system, a focus on the needs of all family members, building on family strengths, and the provision of tailored support.
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Family Matters article Apr 1994
Integrating private and social responsibilities
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Family Matters article Apr 1994
The Value of Care and Nurture Provided by Unpaid Household Work
This paper examines what we now know about the place of unpaid household work in the economy, uses internationally comparable survey data to estimate the relative magnitudes of the millions of hours of paid, unpaid and total work, puts a dollar value on Gross Household Produce (the value added by unpaid household work), looks more closely at who provides care and nurture in households, and suggests some urgent issues for statistics and policy that we should begin to tackle in 1994.
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Family Matters article Apr 1994
Responding to Family Crisis
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Family Matters article Aug 1993
Family services: Counting the cost
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Family Matters article Aug 1993
Work-related child care: Four Melbourne localities
This paper examines work-related child care in four localities of Melbourne: Berwick, Werribee, Box Hill and inner Melbourne, drawing from the Australian Institute of Family Studies' survey of Australian Living Standards.