Family Matters article Jun 1996
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Family Matters article Sep 1996
Domestic Violence Forum report
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Family Matters article Sep 1996
Double jeopardy: Violence against immigrant women in the home
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Family Matters article Apr 1997
Child care in a caring society
In this discussion of the role of child care services in supporting families in their rearing of children in contemporary Australia, the author argues that it is necessary to balance this perspective by thinking of child care as an investment in children and for children.
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Family Matters article Jun 1997
Women's satisfaction with the domestic division of labour
This paper examines and compares men's and women's levels of satisfaction with the domestic division of labour, and the way in which levels of satisfaction vary in relation to a number of factors such as labour force attachment of husbands and wives, life cycle stage, and attitudes to gender roles and social class..
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Family Matters article Jun 1997
Human services: changing language - changing concepts?
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Family Matters article Sep 1997
Family Law Council visits New Zealand
This article briefly describes the meeting of Family Law Council of Australia, an advisory body to the Commonwealth Attorney General, meeting in Wellington, New Zealand, discussing issues such as the representation of children in family proceedings, the Hague Convention, and the treatment of domesticviolence in family law proceedings.
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Policy and practice paper Sep 1997
Emotional abuse: The hidden form of maltreatment
Explores definitions of emotional abuse within legal, practice and research frameworks.
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Family Matters article Apr 1998
Australian Family Research and Policy News
The column provides a snapshot of family research and policy issues from a range of research perspectives and geographic locations around Australia, and in particular covers in this issue, youth suicide prevention, sibling relationships and parental divorce, adolescent health, child protection, indigenous families and domestic violence.
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Research report Jun 1999
The UK looking after children approach in Australia
This report argues that the Looking After Children approach may have measurable benefits for child care services in Australia