Research report Jun 2009
Breastfeeding and infants' time use
Analyses infants' time use according to breastfeeding status in order to inform the debate about how breastfeeding leads to improved child outcomes
Research report Jun 2009
Analyses infants' time use according to breastfeeding status in order to inform the debate about how breastfeeding leads to improved child outcomes
Family Matters article Aug 1992
This article draws on house price data for the period 1974 to 1990 in each local government area in the Melbourne Statistical District, and asks whether house price increases simply reflect inflation, or if families who are home owners and buyers gain in wealth through their home ownership.
Family Matters article Mar 2011
This article examines four issues: the prevalence of different care-time arrangements in families that experienced parental separation after July 2006; parents' views about the flexibility and workability of their arrangements; characteristics of families with different care-time arrangements; and the strength of the relationship between child wellbeing on the one hand, and care-time arrangements and family dynamics on the other.
Family Matters article Apr 2008
In this article, the authors describe the labour force status of carers who receive an Australian Government payment directed to carers, with a particular focus on the degree to which non-employed carers want to be in paid employment.
Family Matters article Aug 1992
In this article a brief overview is presented of the Institute's book 'Who helps: support networks and social policy in Australia', and of the implications of some of the findings.
Research report May 1985
Draws attention to inadequacy of support, inequitable trends in the current tax- transfer system, inappropriate arrangements under current structures
Family Matters article Jun 1996
This article reports on the preliminary outcomes from a major longitudinal study of the influences of non parental child care, experienced during the first year of life, on the developmental progress of the children involved.
Research report Dec 1989
Child Poverty surveys the current data, presents the issues in an accessible manner, and challenges the policy makers.
Family Matters article Sep 1999
This article presents results from a recent UNICEF study of patterns of child poverty across the industrialised world.
Family Matters article May 2010
Family Matters article on economic consequences for single-parent families of child support and Welfare to Work reforms