Family Matters articles from September 2001

Family Matters archives from September 2001

Director's Report.(recent publications on family aspects of social policy)
September 22, 2001... In recent months several interesting publications have been released on various aspects of social policy. In particular, family aspects of social policy have received a good deal of attention in some thought provoking books. In March I was...

Foregone earnings from child rearing.
September 22, 2001... Changes between 1986 and 1997 When people think about the costs of raising children they generally include only the direct expenditure involved. However, there are other costs that are often ignored. A recent study looks at the impact of...

Men's and women's reasons for not having children.(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 2001... Increasingly, men and women are deciding against starting families. The resulting ageing of the population has major implications for social policy. What reasons are people giving for not having children? Have the reasons changed since the...

Marital status and the division of household labour.(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 2001... Cohabitation vs marriage One of the major changes in Australian family patterns in recent years has been the huge increase in the numbers of couples who cohabit prior to marriage. Do cohabitees have more egalitarian arrangements than...

Work and welfare.(Australian income support system)(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 2001... The evolving role of income support In recent decades there have been significant changes in the Australian labour market and in the distribution of employment. JOCELYN PECH AND JOHN LANDT discuss how the income support system has adapted...

ESTABLISHING FAMILY POLICY IN BRITAIN?(Statistical Data Included)
September 22, 2001... It is one thing for Britain's Labour government to promise to support families. The question is whether the government's rhetoric has translated into actual policy, and if so, what is the nature of that policy, and what impact is it having on...

Benefits for children.(study of four countries)
September 22, 2001... A major new international study discusses and compares the child benefit programs of four countries -- Australia, Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom. Benefits for Children: A Four Country Study is a report on the design and...

Meeting the challenges of parenting.
September 22, 2001... Factors that enhance and hinder the role of parents What makes life easier or more difficult for parents raising young children? How do parents from different cultural backgrounds view these issues? The Institute's Parenting-21 study of...

Fathering and children.
September 22, 2001... No amount of longing for the imagined "golden old days", where family members had clearly defined roles, can make such a world happen. Boys and young men live in complex cultural contexts where experiences of what it means to be a male and a...

SEARCHING FOR family RESILIENCE.
September 22, 2001... What gives a family the resilience to work through a crisis? Why is it that some families fall apart when faced with adversities, while others thrive and become stronger? What are the qualities of these resilient families? And how do these...

Women's and men's consciousness of shortcomings in marital relations, and of the need for change.
September 22, 2001... Are women more or less satisfied with their marriage than men? Are they more interested than men in pressing for change in their relationship? A recent study collected information on men's and women's positive and negative feelings about their...

Towards a National Partnership for Developmental Health and Wellbeing.(Australia)
September 22, 2001... A unique new way of working Key researchers in children's health and development attended a recent meeting, held at the Australian Institute of Family Studies, to discuss the formation of a new National Research Partnership for...

New research partnership formed at Australian Institute of Family Studies.(National Research Partnership for Developmental Health and Wellbeing)
September 22, 2001... Thirty-five key researchers in children's health and development attended a workshop held over three days on 22-24 February 2001 at the Australian Institute of Family Studies. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the formation of a new...

LETTERS.(Letter to the Editor)
September 22, 2001... Letters intended for publication should be clearly addressed to the Letters Editor, Family Matters. Letters for the next (Winter) issue should be sent before 28 July 2001. * A DIFFERENT VIEW OF WELFARE DEPENDENCY I would like to...

BRITISH SOCIAL POLICY EXPERT VISITS INSTITUTE.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... On 15 March the Institute was pleased to have UK social policy expert Professor Jane Millar address about 40 staff and visitors as part of the Institute's year 2001 seminar program. Professor Millar is from the Centre for the Analysis of Social...

Families in the news.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... Recent Australian Institute of Family Studies research has contributed to a diverse range of media queries. * CHILDREN? OR NO CHILDREN? In the last edition of Family Matters, we reported effects of changing personal relationships on...

SUPPORTING THE CHILDREN OF EAST TIMOR.
September 22, 2001... In March this year, the institute's Acting Research Manager, Ann Sanson, revisited East Timor, helping with the work of an international non-government organisation which supports disadvantaged children. Ann's role was to help assess and...

MINISTER LAUNCHES AUSTRALIAN AUDIT OF CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION PROGRAMS.
September 22, 2001... "The Government sees strong, wall-functioning families as the cornerstone of our society, and we recognise that children are our nation's most precious resource." With these words, on 28 March 2001, the Federal Minister for Community...

Building communities that strengthen families.
September 22, 2001... Despite the pervasive gloom and doom which seems to be the spirit of our age, there are grounds for hope as we now have the conceptual and empirical components of a strong foundation for developing programs aimed at family strengthening and...

The first three years of the Family Law Reform Act 1995.(Australia)
September 22, 2001... In this edition we reprint a shortened version of the Executive Summary of a report of research undertaken into the operation of the Family Law Reform Act 1995, from the time it came into effect in June 1996 to the end of 1999. We would be...

Away from home.(Review)
September 22, 2001... Away from home, written by Helen E. Craig, drawings by Lisa Crosbie, Upper Murray Family Care, Wangaratta, 1999. Price: $15.00. This picture book is designed for young children who have to go into foster care. It tells the story of Sam, who...

Grandparenting with love and laughter.(Review)
September 22, 2001... Grandparenting with love and laughter, by Trish Gribben, Tandem Press, Auckland, 2000, Price: $22.95. As society has changed, so too has the role of grandparents. Grandparents may now be studying or working full-time, or may live far away,...

Handbook of children and the media.(Review)
September 22, 2001... Handbook of children and the media, edited by Dorothy G. Singer and Jerome L. Singer, Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA, 2001. Price: UK 67.00. This comprehensive publication (consisting of over 750 pages) brings together an interdisciplinary group...

Home is where the family is: moving house with children.(Review)
September 22, 2001... Home is where the family is: moving house with children, by Pam Linke, Australian Early Childhood Association, Canberra, 2000. Price: $14.96. This practical resource booklet aims to make moving house easier for both children and parents....

Educating for resilience: prevention and intervention strategies for young people at risk.(Review)
September 22, 2001... Educating for resilience: prevention and intervention strategies for young people at risk, by Graeme Withers and Jean Russell, ACER, Camberwell, 2001. Price: $37.40. This report was commissioned by the Catholic Education Office, MacKillop...

Disrupted families: the law.(Review)
September 22, 2001... Disrupted families: the law, by Stephanie Charlesworth, J. Neville Turner and Lynne Foreman, The Federation Press, Leichhardt, 2000. Price: $49.50. The intended audience of this book is professionals concerned with marital and relationship...

Mothers and employment choices.
September 22, 2001... 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 families and the social...

Informit celebration.
September 22, 2001... On 8 March, the Australian Institute of Family Studies was represented by Director David Stanton, Database Manager Deborah Whithear, and Database Indexer Susan Fooks, at a gathering to celebrate the successful operation of more than ten years...

Parenting in Australian families: A comparative study of Anglo, Torres Strait Islander and Vietnamese communities.(Review)
September 22, 2001... Parenting in Australian families: A comparative study of Anglo, Torres Strait Islander and Vietnamese communities, by Violet Kolar and Grace Soriano, Australian Institute of Family Studies, 2000. 67 pages, $11.00 plus $5.00 postage and...

Family Thesaurus: Subject terms used in Australian Family & Society Abstracts (sixth edition).(Review)
September 22, 2001... Family Thesaurus: Subject terms used in Australian Family & Society Abstracts (sixth edition), Australian Institute of Family Studies, 2001.48 pages, $40 plus $5 postage and handling. Since its first edition in 1984, the Institute's Family...

Valuing Young Lives: Evaluation of the National Youth Suicide Prevention Strategy.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... The Australian Institute of Family Studies was commissioned by the Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care to evaluate the National Youth Suicide Prevention Strategy, which ran from 1995 to 1999. The evaluation is published by the...

Measuring social capital: Towards a theoretically informed measurement framework for researching social capital in family and community life.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... Measuring social capital: Towards a theoretically informed measurement framework for researching social capital in family and community life, by Wendy Stone, Research Paper No. 24, Australian Institute of Family Studies February 2001. 38 pages,...

Division of matrimonial property in Australia.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2001... Division of matrimonial property in Australia, by Grania Sheehan and Jody Hughes, Research Paper No. 25, Australian Institute of Family Studies, March 2001. 48pages, $5 postage and handling. Also available to download from the Institute's Web...

Pathways from infancy to adolescence: Australian Temperament Project 1983-2000.(Review)
September 22, 2001... Pathways from infancy to adolescence: Australian Temperament Project 1983-2000, by Margot Prior, Ann Sanson, Diana Smart and Frank Oberklaid, Australian Institute of Family Studies, 2000. 83 pages, $16.50 plus 55.00 postage and handling. ...