Policy and practice paper Sep 1998
Valuing parent education: A cornerstone of child abuse prevention
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Overview of parent education and the effectiveness of parent education interventions in the prevention of child maltreatment.
Policy and practice paper Sep 1998
Overview of parent education and the effectiveness of parent education interventions in the prevention of child maltreatment.
Family Matters article Jun 2000
In this paper the New South Wales Commissioner for Children and Young People outlines some of the challenges facing communities, researchers and policy makers.
Family Matters article Sep 1997
In this article the author discusses the extent to which teenagers confide in their fathers, mothers and friends, and whether confiding in fathers is independently linked with the well being of teenagers.
Research report Jun 1999
Data presented in this paper are drawn from the Australian Divorce Transitions Project, a random national telephone survey of 650 divorce Australians.
Family Matters article Sep 1999
This article by researchers from the National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling (NATSEM) at the University of Canberra, follows up two previously published papers calculating new sets of estimates of the cost of raising children based on two different methodological approaches.
Family Matters article Apr 1997
This paper examines the long term social and economic outcomes for children of divorced families as they enter into adulthood, and discusses the intergenerational patterns of divorce and parent child relationships after divorce.
Family Matters article Dec 2011
This paper reviews some of the recent research that has analysed the outcomes of child maltreatment as seen through the lens of the disciplines of neuroscience, psychopathology, traumatology and related fields.
Short article Sep 2018
A new study exploring the meaning of home for children and young people after separation aims to inform living arrangements that work for them.
Policy and practice paper Jan 2013
This paper reviews recent Australian and international research on the long-term effects of child sexual abuse
Family Matters article Feb 2007
This paper seeks to address the gap in empirical data to scientifically document the nature and extent of the intergenerational effects of both forced separation and forced relocation on Indigenous families in terms of social and cultural dislocation, as well as its impact on the health and well being of subsequent generations.