Family Matters article Aug 1991
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Family Matters article Aug 1991
Controlling the purse strings
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Family Matters article Aug 1991
Changing families, changing laws
This article discusses recent moves to reform laws which affect both parents and children after separation, based on issues raised in the Family Law Council's discussion paper 'Patterns of parenting after separation'.
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Family Matters article Dec 1991
There's no work here, eh
This article looks at the effects of the recession, and other factors, on employment in rural and remote towns, such as Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory where the Institute has begun interviewing for the Australian Living Standards Study, and notes that the community has lost ground during the eighties, despite all its efforts and plans.
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Family Matters article Dec 1991
Job seekers and the social security system
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Research report Dec 1991
An ear to listen and a shoulder to cry on: The use of child health services in Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth
This paper examines the use of child health services by mothers who took part in the AIFS' Early Childhood Study in Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth.
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Family Matters article Apr 1992
Sharing the caring: Rethinking current policies
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Family Matters article Apr 1992
Housing costs and unemployed families
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Family Matters article Apr 1992
Trapped in poverty
Using data from the Institute of Family Studies' Parents and Children after Marriage Breakdown study, the author examines the difficulties sole mothers encounter when they attempt to escape poverty by finding paid work.
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Family Matters article Aug 1992
What's new in family law?
This article examines the content and implications of the decision made in the case of In re Marion (1991) FLC 92-193, which considered the rights and responsibilities of the parents of an intellectually disabled teenage girl.