Family Matters article Jun 2005
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Family Matters article Jun 2005
Attitudes to child support in Australia
This article summarises key findings from a study of public attitudes to child support by the Australian Institute of Family Studies helping the Ministerial Taskforce on Child Support in its review of the Child Support Scheme.
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Family Matters article Jun 2005
Beliefs about IVF as a personal fallback option
This paper draws on data from the Fertility Decision Making Project to examine views regarding the use of IVF held by men and women in their twenties and thirties who were in a committed relationship.
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Family Matters article Sep 2005
What Australians think about parental responsibilities
The author describes a current study of the Australian Institute of Family Studies commissioned by the Attorney General's Department to evaluate the impact of Imminent changes to family law, set out in the Family Law Reform Act No.1 (Children), which will alter the way the law talks about parental responsibilities for their children after separation.
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Family Matters article Feb 2006
Teenage mothers
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Family Matters article Feb 2006
From here to paternity
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Policy and practice paper Apr 2006
The effectiveness of parent education and home visiting child maltreatment prevention programs
This paper investigates the effectiveness of child maltreatment prevention programs.
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Research snapshot May 2006
Snapshots of Australian families with adolescents
To support the 2006 National Families Week, AIFS has prepared this Facts Sheet about families with adolescent children aged 8 to 12 years
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Policy and practice paper May 2006
Child abuse prevention: what works? The effectiveness of parent education programs for preventing child maltreatment
Produced by the former National Child Protection Clearinghouse.
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Research report Jun 2006
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.