Research report Dec 2015
Living alone and personal wellbeing
How does living alone influence social connection, health behaviours and subjective wellbeing?
Research report Dec 2015
How does living alone influence social connection, health behaviours and subjective wellbeing?
Research snapshot Mar 2022
Looking back, looking forward presents a summary of findings on how Australian families experienced 2021 and their hopes for 2022.
Resource sheet Aug 2023
Information about who is required by law to report suspected child abuse and neglect to government child protection authorities
Facts and figures Mar 2023
Figures around marriages in Australia: marriage rate, age at first marriage, religious and civil weddings, and more.
Family Matters article Dec 2014
Family Matters article about measuring socio-economic status of women
Media release Jun 2023
A new report by the Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS) has found that young people are increasingly living with their parents well into their late teens and early twenties.
Policy and practice paper Feb 2018
This paper provides a national overview and comparison of cross-agency responses to severe child abuse.
Media release May 2023
A new report by the Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS) has found that women are increasingly remaining employed when they take time off to have a baby, demonstrating the uptake of parental leave in recent years.
Media release Jul 2021
New research by the Australian Institute of Family Studies shows one in five Australian women changed their plans of having children because of COVID-19, and one in seven women indicated that COVID-19 likely impacted on when they would have children, with the majority of this cohort (92%) choosing to delay having children.
Family Matters article Oct 2009
Articles in this issue address the interaction of policies, services and institutions, and the vulnerable with the employment prospects of those in out-of-home care; the economic consequences for single-parent families of the changes to the child support and the Welfare-to-Work reforms; and how the Victorian legal system has responded to family violence.