Family Matters article Sep 1998
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Parental disability and the threat of child removal
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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
Young People's Access to Home Ownership
This article examines whether today's young families are able to enjoy the benefits of home ownership that previous generations have taken for granted, given the broad economic, political and demographic changes that have occurred in recent years.
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Family Matters article Nov 1990
Homelessness still a problem
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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 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.
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Family Matters article Jun 2008
Do Australian children have more problems today than twenty years ago?
The popular view that today's Australian children are faring worse than those of yesteryear can be investigated by comparing similar studies from now and from 20 years ago.