Family Matters articles from September 2000

Family Matters archives from September 2000

Director's Report.
September 22, 2000... This edition of Family Matters reports on the research findings of the Institute's Australian Divorce Transitions Project. This is a major study of the processes of divorce and its consequences -- a study that builds on previous groundbreaking...

Families, divorce and family law.
September 22, 2000... This edition of Family Matters has as its central theme the reorganisation of the family unit throughout the divorce transition. In particular, the contents highlight the great variation of ways in which the divorce transition is effected, and...

Financial living standards after divorce.
September 22, 2000... A decade ago, the Australian Institute of Family Studies found that mothers (and their children) were at an economic disadvantage after divorce compared with fathers. Now, recent Institute data shed light on the question of whether or not there...

Repartnering after divorce.(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 2000... Marginal mates and unwedded women Past research by the Australian Institute of Family Studies found that women were less likely than men to remarry after divorce, and that women with fewer economic resources were more likely to remarry than...

Family Law in Australia.
September 22, 2000... BARGAINING IN THE SHADOW OF THE CONSTITUTION The Australian Constitution divides responsibility for several areas of Australian family law between the States and the Commonwealth. The dual system created as a consequence, particularly in...

The division of matrimonial property in Australia.
September 22, 2000... The way property is divided on divorce is a key issue for families, and one that has attracted considerable debate over the past two decades. Recent Australian Institute of Family Studies data provide an insight into the way in which women and...

Young adult moves.(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 2000... Living home, returning home, relationships Young people are going about life in ways different from their parents: that is well understood But do the rites de passage, the transition markers that formerly signalled adulthood, remain...

Child support for young adult children.
September 22, 2000... Shifting boundaries Policy and practice governing the payment of child Support after parental separation assumes as a General principle that a child is dependent until age 18. By contrast, government income support policy assumes that...

New Employment policies, poverty and mothering.
September 22, 2000... Divorce rates have increased dramatically since the 1970s, leaving more than ever mother-led families in need of government support. However, recent `employability' policies have tended to overlook the changing nature of the job market and the...

New legislative developments.
September 22, 2000... The year 1999 saw a great deal of legislative activity in the family law area, with a number of proposals either before parliament or anticipated for introduction. This trend looks set to continue in 2000 with the establishment of the...

LETTERS.
September 22, 2000... All letters intended for publication should be clearly addressed to the Letters Editor, Family Matters. They can be posted, faxed or emailed. Letters intended for the next (Winter 2000) issue should be sent before 10 July 2000. Letters...

Families in the news.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... Something interesting seems to be happening in the media of late. Writers and commentators who have not previously addressed the impact of political and economic decisions on families are now regularly doing so. Families are now firmly on the...

Recent government family initiatives.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... Launch of new strategy The Prime Minister launched the Stronger Families and Communities Strategy on 16 April 2000. The Strategy brings together work commissioned by the Prime Minister in June 1999 on the development of the National...

Legal recognition of gay and lesbian families.
September 22, 2000... Lesbian and gay claims to relationship recognition are transforming both what we think of as family, and the domain of family law. While some have claimed that legal recognition of same sex couples forms a 'slippery slope' into immorality or...

How children view their parents' divorce.
September 22, 2000... FINDINGS FROM A NORWEGIAN STUDY In-depth interviews with 15 children highlight the need for policy makers and divorcing parents to listen carefully to children in order to understand children's needs and the way children interpret the...

Marital conflict and adolescents.(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 2000... Do adolescents respond differently to marital conflict in the family according to whether or not the conflict involves them? Are they able to distinguish between constructive and destructive marital conflict? Researchers from the University of...

How partners in long-term relationships view marriage.
September 22, 2000... As a prelude to a large scale study of relationships, the Australian Institute of Family Studies recently conducted a small pilot study of marriage. Participants were invited to discuss the meaning of marriage, what makes for a satisfying and...

Aspects of divorce.
September 22, 2000... The following references have been selected from the Australian Family & Society Abstracts database, produced by the Australian Institute of Family Studies to monitor the research, policy and practice literature on family and social issues. ...

WEB UPDATE.
September 22, 2000... Australia is one of the top ten countries for Internet use, making the World Wide Web an effective medium to disseminate research and policy information on Australian family issues. This column reports new Features on the Australian...

The Human Person, the Family and the Law: Three Decades of Change in the Western World 1968-1998.(Review)
September 22, 2000... The Human Person, the Family and the Law: Three Decades of Change in the Western World 1968-1998 By Marie Therese Meulders-Klein In Australia we are not only geographically distant from Europe but also isolated by our monolingual approach...

BOOK NOTES.(Family Information Centre)(Review)
September 22, 2000... The following selection of books and journals on family-related topics are recent additions to the Institute's Family Information Centre. They are available through Libraries, through the Family Information Centre via the Inter Library Loan...