Family Matters article Sep 1998
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Family Matters article Sep 1998
Housing careers in a risk society
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Family Matters article Jun 1998
Raising Children in a Socially Toxic Environment
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Family Matters article Apr 1998
Home Alone Before or After School
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Family Matters article Apr 1998
How Young People Think About Self, Work and Futures
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Family Matters article Nov 1990
Bird's-eye-view of Australia's children
A number of key statistics on Australian children and adolescents are presented in this paper, including facts on the child population, smoking, suicide, school retention, birth rates and death rates.
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Family Matters article Mar 2009
Working poor in Australia
This article presents an analysis of poverty among households where at least one member is employed part- or full-time, based on the most recent ABS Survey of Income and Housing (2005-06), and using the OECD half-median household disposable income poverty line.
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Family Matters article Mar 2009
Relationships between grandparents and grandchildren
Family Matters article exploring relationships between children and their grandparents
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Family Matters article Jun 2008
Growing Up in Australia
A brief overview of the background and design of the study
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Family Matters article Jun 2008
Parents' involvement in their children's education
Engaging families in the education of their children is increasingly viewed as important, with research finding that children achieve more when schools and families work together. This paper investigates the relationship between parental involvement and children's learning competence, with an analysis of Wave 2 data from Growing Up in Australia: the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC), for children in Years 1 and 2 at school.