Family Matters article Nov 1990
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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 Nov 1990
Director's report
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Research report Dec 1990
Children in Australian families
Aimed at students at senior secondary level, this book explores how Australian families have changed and are continuing to change.
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Research report Dec 1990
Children in step-families
This book uses data from the Children in Families Study of the Australian Institute of Family Studies.
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Family Matters article Apr 1991
Child care resources: inner and outer Melbourne
This article discusses preliminary inquiries to inner city centres indicating that there continues to be a shortage of places to meet the needs of parents who live and work in the inner city and that the issue is one of overall supply, not just of geographical distribution of child care places.
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Family Matters article Aug 1991
Community child health care forum
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Family Matters article Dec 1991
Child care
This article looks at child care policy and practice in Sweden and the United Kingdom, two countries whose policies will most likely shape the provision of child care in Australia during the 1990s.
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Family Matters article Dec 1991
Ageing: Everybody's future
This article suggests that while the ageing of Australia is often regarded with trepidation as social planners try to implement health and welfare policies that will adequately provide for the next century's elderly, the potential advantages of there being more old people far outweigh the perceived drain on resources and that the ageing population promises a spreading pool of competence and human help to be drawn upon with enthusiasm.
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Research report Dec 1991
Taking the children to work: Work-related child care in south-eastern Melbourne
The paper explores some of the opportunities for work-related child care in south-eastern Melbourne.