Family Matters article Dec 1993
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Parental involvement in reading with children and television viewing in the first five years
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Research report Dec 1993
When roles overlap: Workers with family responsibilities
Report of the findings of the Dependent Care Study by AIFS, commissioned by the Work and Family Unit, Department of Industrial Relations.
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Research report Dec 1993
A matter of give and take: Small business views of work and family
Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS) Monograph no. 15
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Family Matters article Apr 1994
Violence against women in the home
This article, the second of three articles focusing on family violence in this issue of Family Matters, examines violence against women in the home.
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Family Matters article Apr 1994
Achieving a family supportive workplace and community
This article examines the priority issue 'To promote policies which recognise and support the choices which families are making in combining work and family care' identified by the National Council for the International Year of the Family.
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Family Matters article Apr 1994
The Value of Care and Nurture Provided by Unpaid Household Work
This paper examines what we now know about the place of unpaid household work in the economy, uses internationally comparable survey data to estimate the relative magnitudes of the millions of hours of paid, unpaid and total work, puts a dollar value on Gross Household Produce (the value added by unpaid household work), looks more closely at who provides care and nurture in households, and suggests some urgent issues for statistics and policy that we should begin to tackle in 1994.
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Family Matters article Apr 1994
International Year of the Family
Having discussed the importance of the family to the individual's development and the difficulties associated with formulating family policy, the author presents summaries of the key articles in this issue of 'Family Matters'.
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Policy and practice paper Jun 1994
Domestic violence as a form of child abuse: Identification and prevention
Every year in Australia, thousands of children, as well as women, suffer physically, psychologically and sexually as a result of acts of violence
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Family Matters article Mar 1995
The role of police in physical domestic violence
This article presents survey findings of 185 adults around their views on police intervention in domestic violence situations to explore the level of community support for the enforcement of the criminal process when physical violence against women occurs in the family home.
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Family Matters article Jun 1995
Impact of the work environment on workers with family responsibilities