Research report Feb 1989
Attitudes to various aspects of Australian child maintenance reforms
This paper briefly reviews several public opinion polls conducted to gauge public attitudes to the Child Support Scheme.
Research report Feb 1989
This paper briefly reviews several public opinion polls conducted to gauge public attitudes to the Child Support Scheme.
Family Matters article Sep 1995
This article looks at the history and current status of Australia's Child Support scheme, considering issues such as collection rate, collection enforcement, delivery of payments, split between bureaucracies, client relations, discrimination against Stage One children, and discrimination against non-custodial parents.
Family Matters article Apr 1998
The column provides a snapshot of family research and policy issues from a range of research perspectives and geographic locations around Australia, and in particular covers in this issue, youth suicide prevention, sibling relationships and parental divorce, adolescent health, child protection, indigenous families and domestic violence.
Family Matters article Jun 1997
The column provides a snapshot of family research and policy issues from a range of research perspectives and geographic locations around Australia, this issue featuring reports from our corresponding consultants describing research that falls under the broad sub-headings of indigenous families and children and adolescents.
Media release May 2017
Australian men who become stay-at-home dads while their partners go out to work are still comparatively rare, despite a growing perception their numbers are on the rise.
Family Matters article Sep 2003
This article suggests that rather than endorse pre-emptive assumptions about family structure, the current Parliamentary Inquiry into a 'rebuttable presumption' of 50:50 residency should begin with the child's interests and work outwards
Policy and practice paper Sep 2007
Presents participants’ views on main barriers and incentives that influence Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ decision to become a carer
Family Matters article May 1993
In this edited version of a paper presented at the fourth Australian Family Research Conference in February 1993, the author suggests that the roots of the language of custody and access lie in outdated assumptions of children as economic assets or property.
Media release May 2019
The birth of a child changes little for Australian fathers’ working lives, according to an analysis of employment trends in the past few decades by the Australian Institute of Family Studies.
Family Matters article Sep 1995
This article discusses the widespread and hostile opposition to the British Child Support Act 1991.