Family Matters article Apr 1992
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Family Matters article Apr 1992
Living day to day
The paper examines the effects of the recession on 54 families with at least one unemployed member and a low income or families who were experiencing severe economic hardship for some other reason such as a substantial decline in the income of self-employed people.
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Family Matters article Dec 1991
Cohabitation
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Family Matters article Dec 1991
Cycles of care
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Family Matters article Dec 1991
The legal system and de facto relationships
The author discusses the background to the Joint Select Committee on Certain Aspects of the Operation and Interpretation of the Family Law Act considering whether to extend the Family Law Act to cover disputes arising out of de facto relationships, and the implications of recognising such disputes.
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Family Matters article Aug 1991
Valuing children and parents
this paper discusses the Institute's plans to develop a series of family policy position papers that may serve as a basis for Australia-wide discussion on whether family life is valued sufficiently in public policies and programs, and two documents that may serve as a starting point for those position papers.
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Family Matters article Aug 1991
Family values in the International Year of the Family 1994
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Family Matters article Aug 1991
Enduring values
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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.