Family Matters article Jun 1995
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Impact of the work environment on workers with family responsibilities
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Family Matters article Jun 1995
Adult-parent relationships
This article reports on research on adult-parent relationships and describes findings of a Melbourne-based study of adult-parent relationships.
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Family Matters article Mar 1995
Intergenerational interaction in Finland
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Family Matters article Dec 1994
Intergenerational family support: Help or hindrance?
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Family Matters article Dec 1994
Day care and the integration of disabled children in Norway
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Family Matters article Apr 1994
International Year of the Family
Having discussed the importance of the family to the individual's development and the difficulties associated with formulating family policy, the author presents summaries of the key articles in this issue of 'Family Matters'.
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Family Matters article Apr 1994
Supporting people with a disability and their families
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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
Achieving a family supportive workplace and community
This article examines the priority issue 'To promote policies which recognise and support the choices which families are making in combining work and family care' identified by the National Council for the International Year of the Family.
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Family Matters article Apr 1994
Abuse and Neglect of Older People
This article is the third of three articles which examine family violence and abuse, an issue identified as a priority issue by the National Council for the International Year of the Family.