Family Matters article Apr 1997
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Effects of gender and paid work on grandparenting
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Family Matters article Mar 2016
Payee mothers’ interactions with the Department of Human Services-Child Support
This article explores mothers' experiences with the child support scheme in Australia, highlighting how interactions with the Department of Human Services-Child Support (DHS-CS) agency can facilitate or undermine the receipt of child support.
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Family Matters article Mar 2016
Doing gender overnight?
The first aim of this paper is to establish whether and how the number of young children people have and the age of their youngest child are associated with the quantity and quality of their sleep.
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Family Matters article Mar 2016
Settlement experiences of recently arrived humanitarian migrants
Pre-arrival and early settlement experiences of a cohort of humanitarian migrants
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Family Matters article Nov 2016
The Family Law DOORS
This article addresses criticisms of the Family Law DOORS (FL-DOORS) whole-of-family risk screening tool designed for use across the family law sector, following on from an earlier evaluation study by the Australian Institute for Family Studies that claimed only limited take-up of the tool, and presents new evidence on current use of and research with the FL-DOORS, referring to data from over 7,200 cases.
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Family Matters article May 1993
Violence in families
This paper reports on a qualitative study providing first-hand Australian data on children's perceptions of domestic violence and assesses the availability of support services.
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Family Matters article Aug 1992
Keeping in touch
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Family Matters article Aug 1992
Families after marriage breakdown
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Family Matters article Dec 1991
Ageing: Everybody's future
This article suggests that while the ageing of Australia is often regarded with trepidation as social planners try to implement health and welfare policies that will adequately provide for the next century's elderly, the potential advantages of there being more old people far outweigh the perceived drain on resources and that the ageing population promises a spreading pool of competence and human help to be drawn upon with enthusiasm.
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Family Matters article Jun 1999
Costs of children in Australia - update