Research report Dec 1988
With this ring: First marriage patterns, trends and prospects in Australia
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Reports on the results of research into marriage patterns in Australia from 1920 to 1985.
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Research report Dec 1988
Reports on the results of research into marriage patterns in Australia from 1920 to 1985.
Policy and practice paper Sep 2007
Shortcomings raised by participants in relation to assessment procedures when used to assess potential Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander carers
Family Matters article Dec 2002
This article examines what might be causing decades of falling birth rates and the all time low in Australia's fertility rates.
Family Matters article Apr 2011
In his keynote presentation to the 11th AIFS Conference, 2010, the author proposes a way of measuring how much time people strictly need to spend on various activities of daily life.
Research report Dec 1993
Report of the findings of the Dependent Care Study by AIFS, commissioned by the Work and Family Unit, Department of Industrial Relations.
Family Matters article Sep 2008
This paper provides information about what job characteristics promote or inhibit maintaining employment while caring.
Research report Feb 1999
Over the last twenty years, the Australian Institute of Family Studies has established itself as a key centre for research on the family in Australia.
Family Matters article Aug 1991
this paper discusses the Institute's plans to develop a series of family policy position papers that may serve as a basis for Australia-wide discussion on whether family life is valued sufficiently in public policies and programs, and two documents that may serve as a starting point for those position papers.
Family Matters article Apr 1997
This article presents two views of the Australian Institute of Family Studies' Fifth Australian Family Research Conference: one looking at the nature of family studies, another summarising some of the themes introduced by keynote speakers at the conference, including policy research and policy development, corporate responsibility and the family, and economic restructuring and family living standards, and how they were developed in a range of papers.
Family Matters article Apr 1991
This article discusses findings from the Australian Institute of Family Studies' Becoming Adult Study which suggest that it is young women rather than young men who are making the major adjustments to the demands of employment and having children.