Research report Dec 1988
'Don't feel the world is caving in': Adolescents in divorcing families
Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS) Monograph no. 6
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Research report Dec 1988
Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS) Monograph no. 6
Policy and practice paper Oct 2007
Produced by the former National Child Protection Clearinghouse.
Short article Oct 2018
Recent research conducted by AIFS highlights the importance of incorporating child-inclusive practices in the family law system.
Family Matters article Feb 2006
This article compares children's temperament and behaviour over the 20 year period of The Australian Temperament Project, which has followed a large cohort of Victorian children since their infancy in 1983.
Family Matters article Jun 2009
This paper summarises the findings of a project to review the literature on effective caring that was carried out as part of a larger body of work by one research centre working in the area of carer needs assessment.
Research report Feb 2000
Includes three 1999 Family Matters articles, as well as an earlier paper explaining the two original approaches to calculating the costs of children
Family Matters article Dec 1993
The author looks at a new report published by the Australian Youth Foundation titled 'A Lost Generation?' based on discussions with disadvantaged young people aged between 13 and 28 years.
Research report Jun 2005
This report presents a snapshot of contemporary attitudes to child support in Australia
Family Matters article Aug 1994
This paper draws on the preliminary findings of an ethnographic study investigating how Nyungar young people living in a southern metropolitan region of Perth articulate their everyday experiences of the nexus between substance use and the police.
Family Matters article Apr 1998
This article outlines the Growing Up in Cities project, an eight country international participatory research project sponsored by the UNESCO - MOST (Management of Social Transformation) program, and describes its goal, which is to document some of the human costs and benefits of economic development.