Family Matters article Sep 2008
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Family law update: Form and substance
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Family Matters article Jun 2008
Growing Up in Australia
A brief overview of the background and design of the study
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Family Matters article Jun 2008
Parents' involvement in their children's education
Engaging families in the education of their children is increasingly viewed as important, with research finding that children achieve more when schools and families work together. This paper investigates the relationship between parental involvement and children's learning competence, with an analysis of Wave 2 data from Growing Up in Australia: the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC), for children in Years 1 and 2 at school.
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Family Matters article Jun 2008
Parent-only care
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Family Matters article Jun 2008
Do Australian children have more problems today than twenty years ago?
The popular view that today's Australian children are faring worse than those of yesteryear can be investigated by comparing similar studies from now and from 20 years ago.
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Family Matters article Jun 2008
Work and family responsibilities through life
This article provides a snapshot of paid employment and working hours through life, charting the way people juggle work and family responsibilities across their life stage transitions.
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Family Matters article Apr 2008
Social inclusion
n many developed economies there is currently a focus on how the lives of the most disadvantaged in society can be improved and the role that governments can play in this.
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Family Matters article Apr 2008
Measuring wellbeing using non-monetary indicators
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Family Matters article Apr 2008
Caring and women’s labour market participation
In this article, the authors describe the labour force status of carers who receive an Australian Government payment directed to carers, with a particular focus on the degree to which non-employed carers want to be in paid employment.
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Family Matters article Apr 2008
Stuff you’d never think of
This article reports on research carried out with children who had experienced homelessness in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT).