Family Matters article Apr 1994
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Family Matters article Apr 1994
The Value of Care and Nurture Provided by Unpaid Household Work
This paper examines what we now know about the place of unpaid household work in the economy, uses internationally comparable survey data to estimate the relative magnitudes of the millions of hours of paid, unpaid and total work, puts a dollar value on Gross Household Produce (the value added by unpaid household work), looks more closely at who provides care and nurture in households, and suggests some urgent issues for statistics and policy that we should begin to tackle in 1994.
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Family Matters article Apr 1994
International Year of the Family
Having discussed the importance of the family to the individual's development and the difficulties associated with formulating family policy, the author presents summaries of the key articles in this issue of 'Family Matters'.
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Family Matters article Apr 1994
Responding to Family Crisis
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Family Matters article Apr 1994
Achieving a family supportive workplace and community
This article examines the priority issue 'To promote policies which recognise and support the choices which families are making in combining work and family care' identified by the National Council for the International Year of the Family.
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Family Matters article Aug 1993
Family services: Counting the cost
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Practice guide Nov 2012
Improving policy and practice responses for men sexually abused in childhood
Suggests that conceptualising and responding to male sexual victimisation as a public health issue, will help to improve community responses to men
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Research report Mar 1987
Workers with family responsibilities
This book argues that those who own, manage and structure the places and conditions of employment share some of the broad community's responsibility
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Research report Jul 1983
Work and the family
The paper explores the question - what, in this world of change is to be the relationship between work, family and leisure?
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Research report Sep 1980
Possible directions for an Australian family policy
Argues that the present fragmentation of services, inconsistency in interpretation and application should be replaced by a national family policy