Family Matters article May 2003
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Expectations of marriage among cohabiting couples
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Family Matters article Dec 2002
Marriage, births and fertility
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Family Matters article Apr 2002
Marriage and mental health
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Family Matters article Apr 2002
Understanding community strengths
This article identifies the concepts of social cohesion and social exclusion as providing two theoretical frameworks whose relevance to Australian policy deserves greater exploration.
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Family Matters article Apr 2002
Living standards of older people and policy implications for their grandchildren
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Family Matters article Sep 2001
Starting out together
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Family Matters article Sep 2001
Making marriages last
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Research report Sep 2001
Ageing yet diverse
Australia’s population is ageing, and its growth is slowing down due to remarkable advances in medicine, health care and birth control.
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Family Matters article Jun 2001
School experiences of the children of lesbian and gay parents
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Family Matters article Jun 2001
The UK Sure Start Program
This article describes the background to the UK's Sure Start early intervention program, looks at what it offers and what it aims to achieve, then reviews the early experience of program implementation to draw out some initial lessons for policy makers who may be thinking of developing similar initiatives.