Marriage counselling in Australia

Paper presents an overview of marriage counselling services with a focus mainly on information obtained from Family Law Act approved organisations

Marriage counselling in Australia: An evaluation

Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS) Monograph no. 8

Marriage counselling services: Priorities and policy

Evaluates the role of marriage counselling as one of a number of community resources which have objectives of more satisfying family relationships

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.

Supporting couples across the transition to parenthood

Discussion of the factors affecting relationship satisfaction for new parents and the types of programs that can support the transition to parenthood.

Strengthening and repairing relationships: Addressing forgiveness and sacrifice in couples education and counselling

Examines the role of pro-relationship behaviours, specifically forgiveness and sacrifice, in repairing and maintaining couple relationships.

Recent progress in marriage and relationship education in Australia

A summary of developments addressing challenges and directions for the field of marriage and relationship education.

Research in premarriage education

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.

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.