Family Matters article Sep 1997
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Family Values in the Nineties
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Policy and practice paper Sep 1997
Emotional abuse: The hidden form of maltreatment
Explores definitions of emotional abuse within legal, practice and research frameworks.
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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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Family Matters article Jun 1998
Changing Family Responsibilities
This paper illustrates the flow of social exchanges between the family and the market and the family and the state, particularly in relation to some aspects of domestic labour.
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Family Matters article Sep 1998
Low pay and family poverty
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Research report Feb 1999
Spousal support in Australia
Data presented in this paper are drawn from the 1997 Australian Divorce Transition Project, a national telephone survey of 650 divorced Australians.
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Family Matters article Mar 1999
Work and family life
This article draws on data from the Institute's Australian Family Life Course Study to examine the extent to which work and home life impinge on one another.
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Research report Apr 1999
Superannuation and divorce in Australia
Findings from a recent Institute study show that most divorcing couples fail to consider superannuation in the division of property.
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Research report Jun 1999
Towards understanding the reasons for divorce
Data presented in this paper are drawn from the Australian Divorce Transitions Project, a random national telephone survey of 650 divorce Australians.
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Family Matters article Jun 1999
What is a fair divorce settlement?
This article sets out to show why proposed changes to rules of the of the Family Law Act governing property settlement in divorce, currently being considered by the Attorney-General's department, are so contentious.