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Research report Feb 2003

Family structure, child outcomes and environmental mediators

This paper describes a new Institute study that aims to enhance understanding about how family structure relates to the development of children
Research report Apr 1999

Reconceptualising Australian housing careers

This paper explores empirically how the change to a risk society might be manifest in family life courses and, more particularly, housing careers.
Research report Mar 1998

Social polarisation and housing careers

Draws on a 1996 survey of a national random sample of 25–70 year olds, to examine access to home ownership in the context of a changing labour market.
Research report Feb 1984

Children's participation in divorce

Paper presented at the Conference of Marriage Counselling Organisations held in Canberra, 16 February 1982.
Research report May 2012

Families make all the difference

Prepared for the 2012 National Families Week, with this year's theme being "Families make all the difference: Helping kids to grow and learn"
Research report Mar 2011

Families in regional, rural and remote Australia

This Facts Sheet describes how the characteristics of families differ between the "city" and the "country" or "bush"
Research report May 2010

The best start

The Australian Institute of Family Studies has prepared this Facts Sheet about the diversity of families to support the 2010 National Families Week
Research report Jun 1982

The rights of the child

Briefly surveys the history of the rights of the child, showing that the condition of children today is, generally speaking, far better
Research report Sep 1983

Family change and early childhood development

The concern of the paper is to outline how social change affects the nurturing tasks of family life
Research report Jul 1980

The family and the pre-school child

Stresses the social context of child rearing and challenges some standard assumptions concerning family arrangements for the pre-school child

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