Family Matters article Sep 1997
Australian Family Research and Policy News
This column is designed to keep readers informed of contemporary developments that matter to families.
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Family Matters article Sep 1997
This column is designed to keep readers informed of contemporary developments that matter to families.
Family Matters article Jun 1997
The column provides a snapshot of family research and policy issues from a range of research perspectives and geographic locations around Australia, this issue featuring reports from our corresponding consultants describing research that falls under the broad sub-headings of indigenous families and children and adolescents.
Family Matters article Jun 1999
In this article the authors question whether binding agreements, premarital agreements, or financial agreements entered into before marriage, which in Australia are not legally effective on divorce, would help divorcing couples.
Family Matters article Mar 2011
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.
Family Matters article May 2003
This article looks at notable changes over the last 25 years in the way in which men and women form partnered relationships, and asks what these trends suggest for the future of marriage.
Policy and practice paper Nov 2006
This paper investigates recent literature on child maltreatment in organisational settings.
Family Matters article May 2010
Family Matters article on economic consequences for single-parent families of child support and Welfare to Work reforms
Family Matters article May 2004
Family Matters article Sep 2000
Family Matters article Oct 2006