Research report Jun 2005
A snapshot of contemporary attitudes to child support
This report presents a snapshot of contemporary attitudes to child support in Australia
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Research report Jun 2005
This report presents a snapshot of contemporary attitudes to child support in Australia
Family Matters article Apr 1992
This article discusses the impact of recent social change on men, and questions the continued existence of the supposedly 'invisible father'.
Research report Feb 2000
Includes three 1999 Family Matters articles, as well as an earlier paper explaining the two original approaches to calculating the costs of children
Family Matters article Feb 2006
This article compares children's temperament and behaviour over the 20 year period of The Australian Temperament Project, which has followed a large cohort of Victorian children since their infancy in 1983.
Family Matters article Mar 2011
This edition of Family Matters focuses on family law, which in the past year has seen exponential growth in empirical evidence regarding the operation of our family law system.
Family Matters article Jan 2008
This article describes the old adversarial system of the the Family Law Act, prior to the 2006 amendments; judicial decision making; previous, smaller changes to children's cases; the development of the Children's Cases Program, a pilot program run by the Family Court in New South Wales; and less adversarial principles and duties under the new legislation.
Research report Dec 1988
Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS) Monograph no. 6