Family Matters article Apr 1994
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Developing coherent community support networks
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Family Matters article Apr 1994
The Value of Care and Nurture Provided by Unpaid Household Work
This paper examines what we now know about the place of unpaid household work in the economy, uses internationally comparable survey data to estimate the relative magnitudes of the millions of hours of paid, unpaid and total work, puts a dollar value on Gross Household Produce (the value added by unpaid household work), looks more closely at who provides care and nurture in households, and suggests some urgent issues for statistics and policy that we should begin to tackle in 1994.
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Family Matters article Apr 1994
Regional disadvantage and unemployment
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Family Matters article Apr 1994
Families and financial disadvantage
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Family Matters article Aug 1994
Young people living on the urban fringe
This article examines the access of 12-19 year olds living on the urban fringes of Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide in 1991-92 to education, employment, entertainment and leisure, and compares their situation with that of their inner-city counterparts.
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Family Matters article Aug 1994
Questioning popular representations of 'youth'
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Family Matters article Aug 1994
Families, young people and the risk of sexually transmitted diseases
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Family Matters article Aug 1994
Education and training for young people
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Family Matters article Aug 1994
Aboriginal young people and youth subcultures
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.
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Family Matters article Aug 1994
Youth and ethnicity
This article considers problems of definition, with particular focus on the way the identities of young people from non-English-speaking backgrounds were constructed during the period of assimilation and later under multiculturalism.