Family Matters article Aug 1993
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Family services: Counting the cost
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Family Matters article Sep 1998
Family Poverty, Family Homelessness and the Systems Abuse Cycle
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Family Matters article Sep 2010
Family is for life
Provides prevalence figures for a range of childhood familial experiences (both positive and adverse), and examines the associations between these experiences and psychosocial outcomes in young adulthood.
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Research report Sep 1983
Family change and early childhood development
The concern of the paper is to outline how social change affects the nurturing tasks of family life
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Short article Jun 2017
Family break-up raises homelessness risk, and critical period is longer for boys
In the context of rising housing costs and financial stress, parental separation in low-income families can trigger greater risk of homelessness.
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Research report May 2014
Families, policy and the law
This AIFS book explore some of the complexities of the child and family issues facing those working in social policy and legal systems
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Research report May 2012
Families make all the difference
Prepared for the 2012 National Families Week, with this year's theme being "Families make all the difference: Helping kids to grow and learn"
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Research report Feb 1993
Families in the 1990s: A challenge for future policy approaches
Paper prepared by Dr Don Edgar (Director) and staff of the Australian Institute of Family Studies, for The Social Policy Directorate [N.S.W]
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Research report Mar 2011
Families in regional, rural and remote Australia
This Facts Sheet describes how the characteristics of families differ between the "city" and the "country" or "bush"
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Research report Mar 1985
Families and Australia's economic future
Describes and discusses the trends that are now evident in the way families are forming and re-forming, factors determining families' access to income