Family Matters article Jun 1999
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The Australian Institute of Family Studies and the New National Families Strategy
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Research report Aug 1993
The Australian Living Standards Study Box Hill Report
This document reports on the results of a study of living standards in the City of Box Hill, a middle suburban area of Melbourne.
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Research report May 2013
The Australian Temperament Project
This report highlights some key learnings about human development from the Australian Temperament Project (ATP) - a groundbreaking longitudinal study
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Research report May 2010
The best start
The Australian Institute of Family Studies has prepared this Facts Sheet about the diversity of families to support the 2010 National Families Week
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Research report Aug 1983
The changing face of childhood
The problem of child neglect and abuse is not simply one of parent-child relationships, this paper suggests, but must be understood in social context
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Research report Apr 1985
The child's eye view of family life: A report prepared for the younger children in a study conducted in Victoria in late 1982 and early 1983
Examines children's views of family life in a variety of ordinary Victorian families, including intact, step and one parent families.
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Research report Apr 1985
The child's eye view of family life: A report to respondents in a study conducted in Victoria in late 1982 and early 1983
This report to respondents is based on data collected in the first survey of the Institute's Children in Families Project (CIF)
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Research report Dec 1994
The Commonwealth's role in preventing child abuse: A report to the Minister for Family Services
Presents a five-tier model for the analysis of current Commonwealth child abuse prevention activities as well as for the recommendations for programs
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Family Matters article Dec 1993
The development of competence
This article on child development examines the nature of true intelligence, the elements of the growth of competence and how we might better stimulate the development of a child's many intelligences.
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Family Matters article Jan 2008
The effectiveness of marriage and relationship education programs.
This article reports on a recent analysis of a large-scale survey in which lower odds of divorce were found to be associated with participation in a pre-marriage education program.