Family Matters article Apr 1998
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Home Alone Before or After School
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Family Matters article Jun 1998
Raising Children in a Socially Toxic Environment
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Research report Feb 1999
Spousal support in Australia
Data presented in this paper are drawn from the 1997 Australian Divorce Transition Project, a national telephone survey of 650 divorced Australians.
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Family Matters article Jun 1999
Costs of children in Australia - update
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Family Matters article Sep 1999
Welfare reform in Britain, Australia and the United States
This article considers whether Britain and Australia will eventually have to ask the same tough question that the US has faced: do we want to defend the right of lone parents to choose not to work, or do we really want to reduce the levels of welfare dependency?
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Family Matters article Sep 1999
Welfare dependency and economic opportunity
In this paper, the author criticises and evaluates Lawrence Mead's 'Welfare reform and the family', and offers a British perspective on welfare dependency and economic opportunity.
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Family Matters article Sep 1999
Welfare reform and the family
This article provides an overview of papers presented, and of debate around reform of the welfare and social security systems at the forefront of political debate in many western nations, including Australia.
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Research report Feb 2000
A guide to calculating the costs of children
Includes three 1999 Family Matters articles, as well as an earlier paper explaining the two original approaches to calculating the costs of children
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Family Matters article Mar 2000
Child support for young adult children
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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.