Family Matters article Sep 1997
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Latest trends - Children, Divorce and One-parent Families
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Family Matters article Apr 1998
Latest Australian and Overseas Quality-of-Life Research
This article provides information on the First Conference of the International Society of Quality-of-Life Studies, held in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1997.
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Research report May 1998
Families in later life
This paper explores aspects of retirement and family relationships in the lives of Australian men and women aged 50-70 years.
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Research report Jul 1998
Family relationships and intergenerational exchange in later life
This paper examines the interactions and flows of aid up and down between three generations of the same family.
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Research report Nov 1998
Families in focus in Western Australia
Aims to provide a comprehensive base of information on families and family life in Western Australia.
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Research report Feb 1999
What future for family research?
Over the last twenty years, the Australian Institute of Family Studies has established itself as a key centre for research on the family in Australia.
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Family Matters article Mar 1999
Workshop on quality of life research
This article reports on a two day workshop in which the work of key researchers was presented and contradictions in citizens' quality of life research were explored.
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Research report May 1999
The New 'Australian Family Panel Survey'
The Australian Institute of Family Studies is planning to develop a major new research initiative to be known as the Australian Family Panel Survey.
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Family Matters article Sep 1999
Welfare reform in Britain, Australia and the United States
This article considers whether Britain and Australia will eventually have to ask the same tough question that the US has faced: do we want to defend the right of lone parents to choose not to work, or do we really want to reduce the levels of welfare dependency?
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Family Matters article Sep 1999
Welfare dependency and economic opportunity
In this paper, the author criticises and evaluates Lawrence Mead's 'Welfare reform and the family', and offers a British perspective on welfare dependency and economic opportunity.