Research report Feb 1989
Attitudes to various aspects of Australian child maintenance reforms
This paper briefly reviews several public opinion polls conducted to gauge public attitudes to the Child Support Scheme.
Research report Feb 1989
This paper briefly reviews several public opinion polls conducted to gauge public attitudes to the Child Support Scheme.
Family Matters article Sep 1995
This article looks at the history and current status of Australia's Child Support scheme, considering issues such as collection rate, collection enforcement, delivery of payments, split between bureaucracies, client relations, discrimination against Stage One children, and discrimination against non-custodial parents.
Research report May 1984
Australian Families Income Transfer (AFIT) Project Bulletin No 1, May 1984.
Family Matters article Apr 1998
The column provides a snapshot of family research and policy issues from a range of research perspectives and geographic locations around Australia, and in particular covers in this issue, youth suicide prevention, sibling relationships and parental divorce, adolescent health, child protection, indigenous families and domestic violence.
Family Matters article Mar 1996
This article presents a bibliography of Australian Living Standards Study material produced to date by the Australian Institute of Family Studies.
Family Matters article Mar 1996
This article presents an overview of the goals, methodology and data sets in a major, innovative study of the living standards of Australian Families - the Australian Living Standards Study (ALSS), undertaken by the Australian Institute of Family Studies its methodology and data sets.
Research report Nov 2013
This paper explores the characteristics of employed and non-employed mothers, to identify the factors that contribute to differing employment levels
Research report Jan 1989
This report, outlines the major areas of inquiry, describes the sampling base, and presents preliminary first, limited set of questionnaires.
Family Matters article Sep 2003
This article suggests that rather than endorse pre-emptive assumptions about family structure, the current Parliamentary Inquiry into a 'rebuttable presumption' of 50:50 residency should begin with the child's interests and work outwards
Policy and practice paper Sep 2007
Presents participants’ views on main barriers and incentives that influence Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ decision to become a carer