Family Matters article Sep 1998
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Cultural diversity and family exchanges
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Family Matters article Sep 1999
Mothers in the labour force
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Research report Jan 2000
Parenting in Australian families
Findings from the final stage of the Australian component of the Parenting-21 study are presented around two key themes
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Policy and practice paper Apr 2000
Evaluating child abuse prevention programs
Overview of the use and effectiveness of program evaluation in child abuse prevention.
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Research report Dec 2000
Child care in cultural context
Describes a new study that aims to fill gaps in the research literature concerning the influence of home-child care discontinuities on children.
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Family Matters article Apr 2001
Family law update
This article represents a shortened version of the Executive Summary of a report by the authors of research undertaken into the operation of the Family Law Reform Act 1995, from the time it came into effect in June 1996 to the end of 1999.
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Family Matters article Apr 2002
Understanding community strengths
This article identifies the concepts of social cohesion and social exclusion as providing two theoretical frameworks whose relevance to Australian policy deserves greater exploration.
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Family Matters article Apr 2002
The origin of lone-parent concentrations in metropolitan and regional Australia
This article examines patterns of geographic mobility in order to assess whether migration is likely to be the major cause for high lone-parent concentrations in regional areas, or whether such concentrations are largely a consequence of 'home grown' factors.
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Research report May 2002
Determinants of Australian mothers’ employment
This paper uses data from the 1996 Australian Census to analyse the factors which explain the employment gap.
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Research report Dec 2002
Patterns and precursors of adolescent antisocial behaviour
The first report from the collaborative partnership between the Australian Institute of Family Studies and Crime Prevention Victoria