Media release Feb 2012
Past and present adoptions in Australia
Changes to Australia’s adoption rates and practices are drawn together in a new detailed facts sheet released today by the Australian Institute of Family Studies.
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Media release Feb 2012
Changes to Australia’s adoption rates and practices are drawn together in a new detailed facts sheet released today by the Australian Institute of Family Studies.
Research report Aug 2012
This report presents the findings of the National Research Study on the Service Response to Past Adoption Practices
Family Matters article Jun 2008
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.
Family Matters article Dec 1993
Research report Sep 2009
This paper examines how characteristics of parental paid employment are associated with differences in parent-child time
Policy and practice paper Jun 2012
Examines the importance of listening to the perspectives of young people on their experiences of parental separation.
Family Matters article Dec 1993
Family Matters article May 2003
Research report Oct 1982
Paper is based on the findings from a pilot study of possible educational problems suffered by the growing number of children from one parents homes
Family Matters article Aug 1991