Media release Mar 2019
Financial effects of divorce worse for women
Women are more likely to initiate divorce, but also more likely to suffer financially from it.
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Media release Mar 2019
Women are more likely to initiate divorce, but also more likely to suffer financially from it.
Short article Oct 2018
We provide an overview of the national diagnostic tool and a guide to its use for fetal alcohol spectrum disorder.
Media release Sep 2018
The Australian Institute of Family Study’s submission to the House of Representatives Inquiry into Intergenerational Welfare Dependence ‘highlights the importance of service systems that are responsive to the needs of vulnerable families – and the particular value of coordinated, responsive systems in the context of communities that experience high levels of social and economic disadvantage’.
Short article Aug 2018
This short article highlights the importance of giving children a voice after cases of intimate partner homicide to better respond to their needs.
Media release Apr 2018
The latest estimates of the costs of raising children in Australia show costs have risen substantially over the last two decades due to changing community expectations of what children need to live a healthy life.
Webinar May 2018
This webinar outlined emerging evidence on the impact of early adversity on children’s development and discussed implications for practice.
Media release Oct 2017
A study tracking the settlement experiences of a group of newly arrived humanitarian migrants in Australia has recorded a steady increase in the numbers moving into paid employment.
Short article Oct 2017
This article examines the role of homelessness in the link between child maltreatment and youth offending.
Media release Aug 2017
Australian teens choose to work for the money citing financial reasons as the main motivation to get a job.
Media release Aug 2017
Six in ten Australian 14-15 year-olds know what career they would like to have in the future but the jobs that boys aspire to are quite different to those that girls aspire to.