Family Matters article Aug 1991
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Family Matters article Aug 1991
Young adults and marriage
With the intention of providing general comparative material on marriage for the Institute's Becoming Adult Study, this article focuses on the marriage activity of young adults between 1981 and 1989.
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Family Matters article Aug 1991
What marriage means to young adults in the 1990s
This article reviews findings from the Australian Institute of Family Studies' 1990 Becoming Adult Study which examined, among other things, the attitudes to marriage and expectations of marriage in a group of 23-year-old Victorians.
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Family Matters article Aug 1991
In a Class of Our Own?
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Practice guide Jul 2014
Engaging Indigenous parents in their children's education
Reviews evaluation studies on parental educational engagement in Australia and presents case studies on several programs.
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Practice guide Jul 2014
Positive learning environments for Indigenous children and young people
Reviews the research literature to identify the school-based factors that contribute to an effective learning environment.
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Family Matters article May 2010
Family and place
The first set of articles in this edition of Family Matters considers aspects of place, including neighbourhood effects and the measurement of locational disadvantage - key issues in informing public policy - and discussion of place-based programs designed to ameliorate the impacts of disadvantage on children, families and communities.
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Research report Dec 1989
The social costs of inadequate literacy: A report for International Literacy Year
Commissioned by the International Literacy Year Secretariat
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Facts and figures Mar 2022
Marriages in Australia
Figures around marriages in Australia: marriage rate, age at first marriage, religious and civil weddings, and more.
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Media release Mar 2019
TVs ‘Married at First Sight’ – Is it really real?
The Nine Network’s Married At First Sight ‘shoehorns a lifetime of matrimonial issues into a few dozen episodes’. But how realistic is it?