Family Matters article Jun 1999
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Family Matters article Mar 1999
Social capital and social policy conference
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Family Matters article Sep 1998
Attachment and marital adjustment
This paper discusses the role of 'attachment theory' in providing practitioners with a framework for helping couples build more satisfying committed relationships.
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Family Matters article Jun 1998
Social Exchanges Overview
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Family Matters article Jun 1998
Social Capital
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Family Matters article Jun 1998
Changing Patterns of Social Exchanges
In order to explore some of the major recent changes affecting family responsibilities, this paper provides an overview of key areas of literature on social exchanges between families and the state.
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Family Matters article Apr 1998
Age Differences of Brides and Grooms in Australia
The analysis in this article looks at changes in age difference over time between brides and grooms in Australia.
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Family Matters article Jun 2009
Indigenous social exclusion
Family Matters article on insights into the concept of social exclusion
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Family Matters article Mar 2009
A half-hearted defence of the CDEP scheme
This paper updates the Office of Evaluation and Audit 1997 report that evaluated the The Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) scheme developed as a response to the perceived social threat of "sit-down money" to Indigenous communities in the 1970s.
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Family Matters article Jan 2008
The effectiveness of marriage and relationship education programs.
This article reports on a recent analysis of a large-scale survey in which lower odds of divorce were found to be associated with participation in a pre-marriage education program.