Family Matters article Apr 1997
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Family Matters article Mar 2016
Payee mothers’ interactions with the Department of Human Services-Child Support
This article explores mothers' experiences with the child support scheme in Australia, highlighting how interactions with the Department of Human Services-Child Support (DHS-CS) agency can facilitate or undermine the receipt of child support.
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Family Matters article Aug 1993
Unemployment income support, the active society and AEDP
In this article the author analyses the labour market environment of two remote area Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) communities in the Northern Territory to see if, after five years of the Aboriginal Employment Development Policy, more members of Aboriginal families had gained access to the conventional labour market and the Active Society.
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Family Matters article Aug 1993
Aboriginal Australians and poverty
The author alerts readers to problems associated with measuring income poverty and argues that definitions used in measuring income amongst white Australians are not always appropriate when measuring income poverty amongst Aborigines.
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Family Matters article May 1993
Beyond custody and access
In this edited version of a paper presented at the fourth Australian Family Research Conference in February 1993, the author suggests that the roots of the language of custody and access lie in outdated assumptions of children as economic assets or property.
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Family Matters article May 1993
Single women and their families: The case of Germany
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Family Matters article Dec 1992
The child's right to know both parents
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Family Matters article Dec 1992
Long-term relationships between parents
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Family Matters article Dec 1992
What unemployment means
This article examines the impact of sustained high levels of unemployment on young people's pathways to adulthood and on their families, including discussion around leaving home and forming relationships; being unemployed and living at home with parents; lack of parental support and government initiatives.
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Family Matters article Aug 1992
Families in unemployment