Family Matters article May 1993
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Social policy in Australia: The family dimension
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Family Matters article Apr 1991
Sole Parent Pension: A bridge for solo players?
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Family Matters article Jun 2006
Sowing the seeds of innovation: Ideas for child and family services
Family Matters article in ideas for family services
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Media release Apr 2018
Stay-at-home dads: Still rare but numbers rising
Around 80,000 Australian families now have a stay-at-home dad at the helm, according to research released today by the Australian Institute of Family Studies.
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Policy and practice paper Oct 2007
Stepfamilies: Understanding and responding effectively
A discussion of problems in defining and understanding the complexities of stepfamilies, and differences between stepfamilies and nuclear families.
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Submission Apr 2005
Submission on balancing work and family
Submission focuses on recently analysed data that can assist policy makers in their task of developing supports for parents balancing work and family.
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Short article Sep 2020
Support during COVID-19 survey: What you told us
This short article summarises the findings from our Child, family and community welfare survey: Support during COVID-19.
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Research report Mar 1990
Taxes, families and the Labor Party, 1990
Australian Families Income Transfer (AFIT) Project Bulletin No 8, March 1990.
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Media release Feb 2019
Teen girls influenced by fathers' heavy drinking
Findings from the longitudinal Study of Australian Children show that when a father engages in regular heavy drinking (defined as more than five drinks more than twice a month) when his daughter is aged 12-13, it has a strong bearing on the likelihood she will try alcohol by age 14-15.
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Family Matters article Jun 2007
That elusive but essential element beyond sound legislation, policy and theoretical perspectives