Family Matters article Dec 1993
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Family Matters article Dec 1993
Australian families: an Indonesian perspective
An Indonesian psychologist now studying in Canberra, presents her views on Australian families, asserting that contrary to Indonesian beliefs about western families, Australians put a high value on children.
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Research report Dec 1993
Use and choice of child care
This book provides details of mothers' workforce participation during the pre-school years.
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Family Matters article Apr 1994
Human rights, families and community interests
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Family Matters article Apr 1994
The Value of Care and Nurture Provided by Unpaid Household Work
This paper examines what we now know about the place of unpaid household work in the economy, uses internationally comparable survey data to estimate the relative magnitudes of the millions of hours of paid, unpaid and total work, puts a dollar value on Gross Household Produce (the value added by unpaid household work), looks more closely at who provides care and nurture in households, and suggests some urgent issues for statistics and policy that we should begin to tackle in 1994.
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Family Matters article Apr 1994
Sharing the pleasures and pains of family life
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Family Matters article Apr 1994
The many faces of families
This paper discusses the diversity of families in Australia in terms of their composition, culture and race but argues that diversity is much more than simply a matter for recognition and celebration.
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Family Matters article Aug 1994
Youth and ethnicity
This article considers problems of definition, with particular focus on the way the identities of young people from non-English-speaking backgrounds were constructed during the period of assimilation and later under multiculturalism.
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Family Matters article Dec 1994
Day care and the integration of disabled children in Norway
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Research report Dec 1994
Effects of child care on young children: Forty years of research
Provides an overview of research on infants and young children who have experienced non-maternal and/or non-parental care.