Family Matters article Dec 1991
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Research report Dec 1991
An ear to listen and a shoulder to cry on: The use of child health services in Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth
This paper examines the use of child health services by mothers who took part in the AIFS' Early Childhood Study in Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth.
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Family Matters article Apr 1992
Sharing the caring: Rethinking current policies
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Family Matters article Apr 1992
Housing costs and unemployed families
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Family Matters article Apr 1992
Trapped in poverty
Using data from the Institute of Family Studies' Parents and Children after Marriage Breakdown study, the author examines the difficulties sole mothers encounter when they attempt to escape poverty by finding paid work.
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Family Matters article Aug 1992
Work and family values, preferences and practice
This article considers innovations in the organised care of both children and elderly family members during working hours for workers with family responsibilities.
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Family Matters article Aug 1992
Capital gains and locational disadvantage
This article draws on house price data for the period 1974 to 1990 in each local government area in the Melbourne Statistical District, and asks whether house price increases simply reflect inflation, or if families who are home owners and buyers gain in wealth through their home ownership.
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Family Matters article Aug 1992
Families in unemployment
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Research report Oct 1992
Equity and the impact on families of the Australian tax-transfer system
Study is concerned with family policy in Australia, as it operates through the tax-transfer system in the form of tax concessions and cash transfers.
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Family Matters article Dec 1992
What unemployment means
This article examines the impact of sustained high levels of unemployment on young people's pathways to adulthood and on their families, including discussion around leaving home and forming relationships; being unemployed and living at home with parents; lack of parental support and government initiatives.