Family Matters article Apr 1997
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Exploring links between schools and families
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Family Matters article Apr 1997
Adolescent sibling conflict
This article looks at a study examining the link between adolescents' experiences of parental favouritism and differences in sibling communication patterns during interactions with their sibling.
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Family Matters article Apr 1997
The significance of the conceptualisation of childhood for child protection policy
This article suggests that children are frequently left out of social policy and its analysis and, in the specific area of child protection policy, even though by definition it appears to be child oriented, adultist perspectives dominate.
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Family Matters article Aug 1992
Extended family in Australia
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Family Matters article Aug 1992
Conceptualising family life and family policies
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Family Matters article Aug 1992
No more than a phone call away
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Family Matters article Apr 1992
Changing families in changing societies
This article presents an overview of the Changing Families in Changing Societies conference, held in Brussels in February 1992.
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Family Matters article Apr 1992
A man's place...? Reconstructing family realities
This article discusses the impact of recent social change on men, and questions the continued existence of the supposedly 'invisible father'.
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Family Matters article Sep 1999
Mothers in the labour force
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Family Matters article Sep 1999
The private costs of children in 1993-94
This article by researchers from the National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling (NATSEM) at the University of Canberra, follows up two previously published papers calculating new sets of estimates of the cost of raising children based on two different methodological approaches.