Family Matters article Apr 1991
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Mediating divorce: An alternative to litigation
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Research report Dec 2003
Measuring the value of unpaid household, caring and voluntary work of older Australians
This paper demonstrates that older people make valuable economic contributions to Australian society through the time they spend in voluntary work.
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Facts and figures Mar 2022
Marriages in Australia
Figures around marriages in Australia: marriage rate, age at first marriage, religious and civil weddings, and more.
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Media release Mar 2015
Many Australians live alone
A quarter of all Australian households are now lone person households, according to a new demographic trends paper released today by the Australian Institute of Family Studies.
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Family Matters article Apr 1992
Living day to day
The paper examines the effects of the recession on 54 families with at least one unemployed member and a low income or families who were experiencing severe economic hardship for some other reason such as a substantial decline in the income of self-employed people.
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Media release Sep 2015
Life's ups and downs may be more or less predictable
Australians tend to be satisfied with life despite experiencing highs and lows stemming from common transitions across the life course, according to a study released today by the Australian Institute of Family Studies.
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Family Matters article Sep 1997
Latest trends - Teenage Ex-nuptial Births
There have been some concerns that Australian teenage exnuptial births are rising and this article looks at the latest trends in this area. Although the rate has been increasing, it has not been growing as fast as the rate of increase of exnuptial births to older women.
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Family Matters article Sep 1997
Latest trends - Children, Divorce and One-parent Families
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Family Matters article Apr 1998
Latest Australian and Overseas Quality-of-Life Research
This article provides information on the First Conference of the International Society of Quality-of-Life Studies, held in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1997.
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Policy and practice paper Oct 2007
Kinship care
Produced by the former National Child Protection Clearinghouse