Family Matters article Dec 1992
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Long-term relationships between parents
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Family Matters article Dec 1992
Childhood in its social context
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Family Matters article Dec 1992
What unemployment means
This article examines the impact of sustained high levels of unemployment on young people's pathways to adulthood and on their families, including discussion around leaving home and forming relationships; being unemployed and living at home with parents; lack of parental support and government initiatives.
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Family Matters article Dec 1992
The child's right to know both parents
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Family Matters article Dec 1992
Children's voices, adults' choices
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Research report Dec 1992
Children's rights: An annotated bibliography
The bibliography lists references to Australian works published since 1980 on the topic of the rights of children and young people.
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Family Matters article May 1993
Missing work to care for sick children
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Family Matters article May 1993
Leisure and recreation: Experiences and limitations
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Family Matters article May 1993
The place of family in social policy
This paper suggest there are many aspects of interpersonal relationships in good families that we need to incorporate in the more public parts of our lives, that policy makers often have unrealistic expectations of the capacity of these small and fragile units and examines the care-work nexus, suggesting a number of issues which could and should inform public policy debate.
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Family Matters article May 1993
Beyond custody and access
In this edited version of a paper presented at the fourth Australian Family Research Conference in February 1993, the author suggests that the roots of the language of custody and access lie in outdated assumptions of children as economic assets or property.