Family Matters article Sep 1995
British Child Support Act in practice
This article discusses the widespread and hostile opposition to the British Child Support Act 1991.
Family Matters article Sep 1995
This article discusses the widespread and hostile opposition to the British Child Support Act 1991.
Family Matters article Sep 1995
This article looks at the history and current status of Australia's Child Support scheme, considering issues such as collection rate, collection enforcement, delivery of payments, split between bureaucracies, client relations, discrimination against Stage One children, and discrimination against non-custodial parents.
Policy and practice paper Dec 1995
Current issues of child sexual abuse, perpetrator characteristics, the "backlash" against child abuse, ritual abuse and prevention initiatives.
Research report Dec 1995
Is it possible to integrate the roles of work and family, or will this remain a vision more than the reality?
Research report Dec 1995
In this book the author focuses on the facts, figures, myths and realities of families in Australia.
Policy and practice paper Jun 1996
Discussion Paper 1 Produced by the National Child Protection Clearinghouse.
Policy and practice paper Jun 1996
Review of the literature on intergenerational transmission of maltreatment, and whether and how maltreated children become abusive parents.
Family Matters article Jun 1996
This paper suggests that it is still not easy, in 1995, for the more than a quarter of Australia's workforce to gain the additional flexibility which may be required to carry out the dual tasks of care and paid work
Family Matters article Apr 1997
This article discusses the trend for more of those women who have children to stay in, or return to, the workforce after the birth of a child or during the early child raising years, and in parallel, the trending decline among young women in the workforce who have the care of dependent children.
Family Matters article Apr 1997
This article presents two views of the Australian Institute of Family Studies' Fifth Australian Family Research Conference: one looking at the nature of family studies, another summarising some of the themes introduced by keynote speakers at the conference, including policy research and policy development, corporate responsibility and the family, and economic restructuring and family living standards, and how they were developed in a range of papers.