Research report Dec 1988
'Don't feel the world is caving in': Adolescents in divorcing families
Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS) Monograph no. 6
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Research report Dec 1988
Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS) Monograph no. 6
Media release Nov 2017
An estimated 6.8 million Australians are regular gamblers, spending money on one or more gambling activities in a typical month, according to new analysis by the Australian Gambling Research Centre (AGRC), part of the Australian Institute of Family Studies. AGRC manager, Dr Jennifer Baxter said that of regular gamblers, participation in lotteries was most common, followed by instant scratch tickets and playing the pokies.
Research report Nov 1999
This Briefing gives an overview of the AIFS and Australian Catholic University joint round table discussion on premarriage education.
Research report Aug 1989
This report provides a preliminary, mainly tabular view of data collected from a series of mail questionnaires.
Family Matters article Mar 2000
This overview of the Institute's Australian Divorce Transitions Project, which was conceptualised by the late Dr Kathleen Funder, sets out the aims of the project, and provides brief details of the project's three surveys - an 'adult survey', 'children's survey', and a 'violence survey'.
Webinar Sep 2015
This webinar described the effects of gambling in Indigenous communities, and discussed a health promotion framework to inform policy and practice.
Family Matters article Apr 1998
The analysis in this article looks at changes in age difference over time between brides and grooms in Australia.
Short article May 2019
This discussion article explores Relationship Australia's service response to the ageing of Australia's population.
Family Matters article Sep 1998
This paper discusses the role of 'attachment theory' in providing practitioners with a framework for helping couples build more satisfying committed relationships.
Family Matters article Jun 1999
In this article the authors question whether binding agreements, premarital agreements, or financial agreements entered into before marriage, which in Australia are not legally effective on divorce, would help divorcing couples.