Family Matters article Jun 1998
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Raising Children in a Socially Toxic Environment
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Family Matters article Apr 1998
Home Alone Before or After School
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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.
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Family Matters article Jun 2008
Do Australian children have more problems today than twenty years ago?
The popular view that today's Australian children are faring worse than those of yesteryear can be investigated by comparing similar studies from now and from 20 years ago.
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Family Matters article Apr 2008
Stuff you’d never think of
This article reports on research carried out with children who had experienced homelessness in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT).
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Family Matters article Apr 2008
Are family changes, social trends and unanticipated policy consequences making children’s lives more challenging?
This opinion piece draws attention to the changing family and demographic trends affecting children today, including increases in divorce and single parent families, the increasing divide of disadvantage and affluence, and child abuse.
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Family Matters article Jun 2007
How four year-olds spend their day
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Family Matters article Jun 2007
The importance of caring for children in Australian society
This article calls for child welfare to be at the forefront of civilised society, as well as discussing Australia's low ranking in child well being and the concept of "Modernity's paradox", where child outcomes and youth problems are worsening despite rising economic prosperity.