Spousal support in Australia

Data presented in this paper are drawn from the 1997 Australian Divorce Transition Project, a national telephone survey of 650 divorced Australians.

Paying for the children: Parent and employer experiences of stage one of Australia's Child Support Scheme

The Institute's evaluation of the first stage of Australia's Child Support Scheme covers the experiences of more than 15,000 parents.

A discussion paper on child maintenance

AIFS response to the government's discussion paper 'Child support: a discussion paper on child maintenance'.

Attitudes to various aspects of Australian child maintenance reforms

This paper briefly reviews several public opinion polls conducted to gauge public attitudes to the Child Support Scheme.

Financial support and relationships with children

This report focuses on the financial support of children and some associated family and economic circumstances.

A snapshot of contemporary attitudes to child support

This report presents a snapshot of contemporary attitudes to child support in Australia

Reservation wages and the earnings capacity of lone and couple mothers

This paper concerns the factor of wages in attracting income support recipients into the work force.

Child support for young adult children

Changes in child support

This article looks at changes to the Child Support Scheme. Aspects of the child support debate have centred on what was considered to be the unfair demands for financial support from non resident parents.

The origin of lone-parent concentrations in metropolitan and regional Australia

This article examines patterns of geographic mobility in order to assess whether migration is likely to be the major cause for high lone-parent concentrations in regional areas, or whether such concentrations are largely a consequence of 'home grown' factors.