Family Matters article Apr 2002
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Family Matters article Apr 2002
Access to family-friendly work practices
This article summarises the results of recent research that looks at access to family friendly work practices among employees working within the same workplace.
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Family Matters article Apr 2002
Parents' expectations, values and choice of child care
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Research report Dec 2000
Child care in cultural context
Describes a new study that aims to fill gaps in the research literature concerning the influence of home-child care discontinuities on children.
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Research report Jun 1999
The UK looking after children approach in Australia
This report argues that the Looking After Children approach may have measurable benefits for child care services in Australia
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Family Matters article Apr 1998
Australian Family Research and Policy News
The column provides a snapshot of family research and policy issues from a range of research perspectives and geographic locations around Australia, and in particular covers in this issue, youth suicide prevention, sibling relationships and parental divorce, adolescent health, child protection, indigenous families and domestic violence.
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Family Matters article Jun 1997
Human services: changing language - changing concepts?
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Family Matters article Apr 1997
Child care in a caring society
In this discussion of the role of child care services in supporting families in their rearing of children in contemporary Australia, the author argues that it is necessary to balance this perspective by thinking of child care as an investment in children and for children.
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Family Matters article Jun 1996
Are Australian workplaces family friendly?
This paper suggests that it is still not easy, in 1995, for the more than a quarter of Australia's workforce to gain the additional flexibility which may be required to carry out the dual tasks of care and paid work
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Family Matters article Jun 1996
Families, young people and health care