Family Matters article Mar 2000
-
-
Short article Dec 2017
Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse: Report released
A short overview of the final report released by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse on 15 December 2017.
-
Short article Jan 2018
It’s organisational leaders who fail to manage situational risks for the safety of children
Professor Daryl Higgins reflects on the findings from the Royal Commission and considers how organisational leaders can best respond.
-
Research report Nov 2013
The tyrannies of distance and disadvantage
This research report investigates whether children in regional areas experience a "tyranny of distance" or a "tyranny of disadvantage".
-
Media release Sep 2018
Welfare dependence - cause or symptom of disadvantage?
The Australian Institute of Family Study’s submission to the House of Representatives Inquiry into Intergenerational Welfare Dependence ‘highlights the importance of service systems that are responsive to the needs of vulnerable families – and the particular value of coordinated, responsive systems in the context of communities that experience high levels of social and economic disadvantage’.
-
Family Matters article Sep 2010
Preventing violence, abuse and neglect against women and children
-
Family Matters article Sep 2010
Overview: Violence, abuse and neglect
-
Family Matters article Sep 2010
"What is the justice system willing to offer?"
Drawing on the narratives of 22 victim/survivors of sexual assault, this article identifies what justice means to these victim/survivors and discusses four key aspects that relate to their procedural justice needs' information, validation, voice and control.
-
Family Matters article Dec 2013
Multi-type maltreatment and polyvictimisation
This paper compares multi-type maltreatment and polyvictimisation conceptually, outlining the history of the development of the two frameworks.
-
Family Matters article Dec 2013
Poverty and welfare
Family Matters article about poverty and destitution in the aftermath of the United States recession