Family Matters article Sep 2010
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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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Family Matters article Sep 2010
Kinship care
Family Matters article reviewing kinship care issues
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Family Matters article Sep 2010
Family violence
Family Matters article on the Evaluation of the 2006 Family Law Reforms
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Family Matters article Jul 2013
Violence, abuse and the limits of shared parental responsibility
This article traces the recognition within family law in modern Western societies that children generally benefit from the involvement of both parents in their lives, and argues that though the indissolubility of parenthood is appropriate for most separated parents, limitations on joint parental responsibility are also appropriate in cases of family violence concerns and in cases where the parents have never lived together as a family.
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Family Matters article Dec 2013
Early education and care experiences and cognitive skills development
Family Matters article on a comparative perspective between Australian and American children
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Family Matters article Dec 2013
Early childhood poverty and adult achievement, employment and health
Family Matters article on early childhood poverty and adult achievement
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Family Matters article Mar 2011
The effect of family violence on post-separation parenting arrangements
This article reports key findings of two national online surveys with adults and children in relation to post-separation parenting, which formed part of larger research commissioned by the Australian Attorney-General into family law and family violence in Australia in 2009.
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Family Matters article Apr 2011
Children in poverty
Family Matters article on children in poverty
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Family Matters article Dec 2012
Joint attention and parent-child book reading
Family Matters article on early language development, school readiness and academic achievement