Reservation wages and the earnings capacity of lone and couple mothers

This paper concerns the factor of wages in attracting income support recipients into the work force.

Same-sex parented families in Australia

A review and synthesis of the Australian and international literature on same-sex parented families.

Online counselling for problem gambling

Reports on the characteristics of online counselling clients and describes their preferences for online services over similar free options.

The impact of gambling problems on families

Gambling problems can have severe personal consequences as well as have significant impacts on families and communities.

Lesbian parenting

The origin of lone-parent concentrations in metropolitan and regional Australia

This article examines patterns of geographic mobility in order to assess whether migration is likely to be the major cause for high lone-parent concentrations in regional areas, or whether such concentrations are largely a consequence of 'home grown' factors.

School experiences of the children of lesbian and gay parents

Family law update

This article represents a shortened version of the Executive Summary of a report by the authors of research undertaken into the operation of the Family Law Reform Act 1995, from the time it came into effect in June 1996 to the end of 1999. 

Opinion: Sole-parent families

Family Matters opinion piece on sole-parent families

Doing gender overnight?

The first aim of this paper is to establish whether and how the number of young children people have and the age of their youngest child are associated with the quantity and quality of their sleep.