Research report Oct 2012
Ageing parent carers of people with a disability
This report presents information on parents who care for people with a disability in Victoria, focusing on the issue of ageing.
Research report Oct 2012
This report presents information on parents who care for people with a disability in Victoria, focusing on the issue of ageing.
Family Matters article Mar 1999
These papers with their focus on changes in family patterns, structures, transitions and attitudes across the generations, make a contribution to understanding the role that families have in the lives of older persons.
Family Matters article Dec 1991
This articles notes that both the age and status markers by which we judged adulthood in the past are no longer clear cut indicators, and discusses the 1990 Becoming Adult Study, which asked 138 23-year-olds what adulthood meant to them.
Family Matters article Jun 1995
This article reports on research on adult-parent relationships and describes findings of a Melbourne-based study of adult-parent relationships.
Family Matters article Aug 1992
This article traces recent changes in youth income support conditions, and highlights what they imply about independence of, and responsibility for, young people, and argues that the changes convey negative messages to young people about the value society places on them.
Family Matters article Dec 1993
This article looks at characteristics distinguishing adolescent smokers and non-smokers, based on data for Box Hill and Berwick families derived from the Australian Living Standards Study.
Family Matters article Dec 1992
The authors report findings based on reports of adolescent school students, adolescent school leavers and their parents who participated in the Australian Institute of Family Studies' Australian Living Standards Study, that asked questions such as how often parents and adolescent children argue, what they argue about, whether they like each other and how they view their relationships with one another.
Family Matters article Mar 1999
This article considers the central role played by carers in maintaining people at home, and questions the somewhat taken-for-granted relationship between the availability of informal care and admission to residential care.
Webinar Sep 2015
This webinar described the effects of gambling in Indigenous communities, and discussed a health promotion framework to inform policy and practice.
Media release Dec 2016
Australians believe that parents and their adult children have an obligation to support each other practically and financially, according to research by the Australian Institute of Family Studies.