Research report Dec 1993
When roles overlap: Workers with family responsibilities
Report of the findings of the Dependent Care Study by AIFS, commissioned by the Work and Family Unit, Department of Industrial Relations.
Research report Dec 1993
Report of the findings of the Dependent Care Study by AIFS, commissioned by the Work and Family Unit, Department of Industrial Relations.
Policy and practice paper Mar 2010
Examines the literature regarding adolescent-parent relationships, and the evidence for family involvement in interventions to address problems.
Family Matters article Sep 2008
This paper provides information about what job characteristics promote or inhibit maintaining employment while caring.
Webinar Oct 2018
This webinar examined Emerging Minds’ work, focusing on how practitioners and services can develop consistent and engaging child-focused practice.
Family Matters article Apr 1991
This article discusses findings from the Australian Institute of Family Studies' Becoming Adult Study which suggest that it is young women rather than young men who are making the major adjustments to the demands of employment and having children.
Research report Jul 2008
This paper presents Australian research on how different factors relate to the timing of women's return to work after having a child
Family Matters article Apr 1994
This paper examines what we now know about the place of unpaid household work in the economy, uses internationally comparable survey data to estimate the relative magnitudes of the millions of hours of paid, unpaid and total work, puts a dollar value on Gross Household Produce (the value added by unpaid household work), looks more closely at who provides care and nurture in households, and suggests some urgent issues for statistics and policy that we should begin to tackle in 1994.
Family Matters article Sep 2004
This article explores the relationship between work orientation, labour force status and control using data from the Australian Institute of Family Studies 2002 Family and Work Decisions survey which involved a nationally representative random sample of 2405 Australian mothers.
Family Matters article Jun 2005
This article addresses the question of whether lone and couple mothers differ in their use of, and unmet need for, family friendly work arrangements.
Short article Sep 2017
Young people leaving care have specific needs and are at greater risk of contact with the justice system.