Family futures: issues in research and policy
Papers listed below were presented at the 7th Australian Institute of Family Studies Conference, July 2000. Copyright permission has been obtained from all authors so that copies of papers may be made for the purposes of personal, non-commercial use or for research and study in educational institutions, provided the paper is used in full, with proper attribution to the author(s).
Keynote addresses by Professor Lawrence Mead, Professor Carol Smart and Gillian Calvert are to be published in the next issue of Family Matters.
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Tom
Altobelli
The family home in Australia Abstract
/ Paper (PDF 130 KB)
Susan Armstrong
The children's provisions and the violence provisions in the Family Law
Act: incompatible and inconsistent?
Abstract
Sue Ash and Sue Diamond (Facilitators)
Children in care - meeting their parenting needs - workshop
Abstract / Paper (29 KB)
Eric Baker
Children's wishes in residence and contact disputes
Abstract
Victoria Banham, Alice Higgins, Jane Hanson and Michelle Jarratt
Parent-child communication and its perceived effects on the young child's
developing self concept. Abstract
/ Paper: HTML or PDF (87 KB)
Marilyn Barnes and Gus Eddy
Home-Start (Newcastle/Eastlake Macquarie) Research Project
Abstract
Terry Bartholomew
Family violence interventions and mandatory behaviour change programs: some
obstacles to integration. Abstract
/ Paper: HTML or PDF (20 KB)
Howard Bath
Rights and realities in the permanency debate
Abstract
Michael Bittman and Cathy Thomson
The time determinants of caring
Abstract
Jennifer
Bowes
Response of parents to parent education and support programs: a review of
evaluation research on some key USA programs
Abstract / Paper: HTML or PDF (39 KB)
Ailsa
Burns
Chapters of our lives: life narratives of low-income midlife and older women.
Abstract / Paper: HTML
or PDF (57 KB)
Anna Byas
Post-separation parenting - what's law got to do with it?
Abstract / Paper HTML or PDF (16 KB)
Judy Cashmore
What can we learn from the research on adoption and foster care?
Abstract
Jacqui Craig
Raising the profile of fathering in the community
Abstract
D. Russell Crane
Decreasing health care use with marriage and family therapy: the case for
involving family members in mental health care Abstract
Heather D'Cruz (Facilitator)
Constructing meanings and identities in child protection
practice - Workshop Abstract
Susan Donath
Pipe and slippers or kitchen sink? Coming home from work
Abstract
Belinda Fehlberg and Bruce Smyth,
Pre-nuptial agreements in Australia; past, present and future
Abstract
Julie Finlayson
What future for Indigenous families? Methodological considerations for policy
research Abstract
Karen Fisher, Cathy Thompson and Marilyn McHugh,
The link between children's services and child protection: the perspective
of directors of children's services.
Abstract / Paper: HTML or PDF (35 KB)
Kerry Flanagan
Social capital and stronger communities - the challenges for policy design
and evaluation Abstract
Jo Fletcher and Dr Garth Alperstein (Facilitators)
Schools as Community Centres: Making Connections - Workshop
Abstract
Babette Francis
Is gender a social construct or a biological imperative?
Abstract / Paper HTML
or PDF (36 KB)
Robyn Freestone and John Toumbourou
From the horses' mouth - an investigation of young people from culturally
and linguistically diverse backgrounds and their views regarding drug education
Abstract
Michelle Gabriel
Between homes: a study of Australia's regional 'youth exodus'.
Abstract | Paper: HTML or PDF (46 KB)
Mary Gays
Getting it right for young carers in the ACT Abstract
/ Paper: HTML or (58 KB)
Judi Geggie
Findings from the Australian Family Strengths Project
Abstract
Dimi
Giorgas
Community formation and social capital in Australia
Abstract / Paper: HTML or PDF (35 KB)
Josephine Glenday and Leah Armstrong (Facilitators)
Building on strengths - workshop
Abstract
Adam Graycar
Crime and older Australians - understanding and responding to crime and
older people Abstract
/ Paper HTML or PDF (52 KB)''
Reg Graycar
Reforming relationships law: rethinking law beyond the marriage paradigm
Abstract
Ewa
Griffiths and Jennifer Hayes
Towards stability and independence for young families in crisis- Townsville,
Queensland Abstract / Paper: HTML
or PDF (64 KB)
Anne
Hampshire and Karen Healy
Social capital in practice Abstract
/ Paper: HTML or PDF (26 KB)
Bruce Hawthorne
Nonresident fathers' struggle with the system
Abstract
Dianne Heriot and Tricia Szirom (Facilitators)
Partnerships against domestic violence - workshop
Abstract
Suzanne
Higgins and Carol Morse
Combining parenting and paid work: sharing child care in dual income families Abstract / Paper (PDF 44 KB)
Anne Honey
The NSW Parent-Child Health and Wellbeing Project: a child health and safety
program for parents with special learning needs
Abstract / Paper
Sue Howard
Fathering behind bars Abstract
| Paper
Jody Hughes
Marginal mates and unwedded women: repartnering after divorce in Australia
Abstract / Paper
(1003 KB) Based on Repartnering after divorce: marginal mates and unwedded
women, Family Matters no.55 Autumn 2000
Jenni
Ibrahim
Developing a plan for families: listening to the community
Abstract / Paper: HTML or PDF (45 KB)
Jeannette Johnson and Janet Taylor
'The invisible Australians': conceptions of poverty in Australia
Abstract / Paper (PDF 65 KB)
Helen Johnstone
The national child protection data collection - what does 10 years worth
of data tell us? Abstract / Paper
Wendy Jones, Angela Papoutsoglou, Karen Monk and Lisa Scully
Pilot residential parenting assessment program for high risk infant families
Abstract
Ross
Kelly and Phil Lewis
Neighbourhoods, families and youth employment outcomes: a study of the Melbourne
metropolitan region Abstract
/ Paper
Susan
Kelly,
Adoption in Australia - an overview
Abstract / Paper HTML or PDF (60 KB)
Kristyn Kemp and Peter Wilson
Efficiency, satisfaction, psychological adjustment, and self reported
disadvantage after mediated or litigated child residency and contact disputes
in the Family Court of Australia. Abstract
Violet Kolar and Grace Soriano
Parental disciplinary practices: findings from Parenting-21
Abstract
John
Landt and Jocelyn Pech
Work and welfare in Australia: the changing role of income support
Abstract / Paper:
HTML or PDF (86 KB)
April Lawrie-Smith and Sally Castell-McGregor,
Manufactured communities: sick land - sick people
Abstract
Christina Lee, Anne Young, Julie Byles and Penny Warner-Smith,
Women's health Australia: healthy women, healthy families
Abstract
Sue
Leppert
Implications of government funding cuts on child care - unitingcare long
day care centres Abstract / Paper:
HTML or PDF (110 KB)
Lyn Littlefield, K. Story, C. Woolcock, M. Trinder, S. Burke
and K. Reid
The Exploring Together Program
Abstract
Gwynnyth Llewellyn, Kirsty Thompson and Samantha Whybrow
Family wellbeing and out-of-home placement for children with disabilities
Abstract
Debbi Long
Family fluidity: concepts of family, bodily fluids and connectedness. Abstract
Maria Luteria and Jennifer Bourne
Financial independence and Youth Allowance: young people and parents' views.
Abstract / Paper: HTML
or PDF (77 KB)
David McConnell and Gwynnyth Llewellyn
Parental disability and statutory child protection proceedings
Abstract
Robyn McKay and Lee Emerson
The Stronger Families and Communities Strategy: prevention and early intervention
strategies in family policy Abstract
/ Paper: HTML or PDF (33 KB)
Helen McKeering, Jan Nicholson, George van der Heide, Kenneth
I. Pakenham and Owen Pershouse
Separated fathers' parenting: aspirations and obstacles
Abstract
Stephen Matthey and Pandora Petrovski
Preventing depression in adolescents - the evaluation of the Resourceful
Adolescent Program (RAP) in two South Western Sydney high schools Abstract
Penny Mitchell
Families and youth suicide prevention: implications for policy development
Abstract
Lawrie Moloney
Family Court parenting judgements as social narratives. An empirical analysis
of appeals relating to 'finely balanced' published judgements delivered between
1988 and 1999. Abstract
Frank
Monagle
Parenting the very young - key to the future
Abstract / Paper HTML or PDF (13 KB)
Bill Muehlenberg
The historicity and universality of the natural family
Abstract
Vivienne Muller
'Paper, scissors, rock' - images of American family suburban life in some
films of the nineties Abstract
Paul
Murphy and Janice Dickinson
'Mums and Dads Forever': a cooperative parenting initiative
Abstract / Paper: HTML or PDF (14 KB)
Paul
Murphy and Michael Clare
Peer mentors as partners in the leaving care process: evaluation of a Western
Australian initiative Abstract /
Paper: HTML or PDF (24 KB)
Jake Najman, William Bor, Michael O'Callaghan, Gail Williams
and Greg Shuttlewood
Family form and quality: changes over time
Abstract
Senator
the Hon Jocelyn Newman
Opening address
Paper
Jan Nicholson
The proposed millennium generation longitudinal study: challenges in designing
a national study Abstract
Patrick O'Leary
Gender differences in disclosure and predicting psychological outcomes
Abstract
Terrance
Olson
Marital conflict and self-deception: educational interventions
Abstract / Paper
Cas O'Neill
Support, timelines and hard decisions
Abstract
Jo
Page
Who cares? A study of diverse care arrangements in Australian society
Abstract / Paper: HTML
or PDF (36 KB)
Robyn Parker
Marriage and relationship research and education in Australia - where to
from here? Abstract / Paper
Wendy
Parker
New Zealand property rights legislation: a changing landscape?
Abstract / Paper HTML or PDF (20 KB)
Parminder Parmar, Sara Harkness and Charles M. Super
Euro-american and Asian parents ethnotheories about play and learning during
preschool years. Abstract
Vicki
Pearse
Parents, planning and participation: The Parenting Payment Intervention
Pilot Abstract / Paper:
HTML or PDF (35 KB)
Julia Perry
One Language, Three Accents: Welfare Reform in the US, UK and Australia
Abstract
Roslyn Phillips and Babette Francis
Some strategies for reducing the incidence of child abuse and neglect in
Australia Abstract
Lisbeth
Pike
Single Mum or single Dad? The effects of parent residency arrangements on
the development of primary school-aged children
Abstract / Paper (PDF 51 KB)
Eileen Pittaway
Surviving war - surviving peace - working with refugee and other families
who have experienced torture and trauma in conflict situations.
Abstract
Liz Poole and Adam Tomison
Preventing child abuse in Australia: some preliminary findings from a national
audit of prevention programs. Abstract
/ Paper HTML or
PDF (37 KB)
John
Powlay and Liza Carroll,
Child care affordability Abstract
/ Paper HTML or PDF (150 KB)
Alun Preece
The impact of the law of inheritance on the family
Abstract / Paper (PDF 70 KB)
Paul Prichard
The relationship between volunteer and professional workers in providing
support to families with young children who are experiencing difficulties
Abstract
Lauren
Reader
Business versus bath-time: the work and family report
Abstract / Paper: HTML or PDF (26 KB)
Elizabeth Reid Boyd
'Being there': mothers who stay at home
Abstract
Heather Roche, Jane Van der Stoel and Tom Griffiths (Facilitators)
Walking a tightrope: therapeutic responses to family
violence- workshop Abstract
Umme Salma
Equity and work incentives for families under government housing assistance
Abstract
Sotirios Sarantakos
Victims and perpetrators: why did DV policies fail?
Abstract
Peter Saunders and Ceri Evans
Attitudes to social change and conceptions of poverty among Australian families
Abstract
Jenny Scharer-Smith
The importance of using a community development model when considering service
delivery in high needs communities.
Abstract
Elizabeth Seddon and Kerry James
Men's understanding of their violence: implications for policy and practice
Abstract
Anita Seibert
What about us? the role of grandmothers in childrearing - a cross cultural
perspective. Work in progress report.
Abstract
Robyn Seth-Purdie
Accumulated adversity and human capital formation: implications for social
policy. Abstract / Paper HTML
or PDF (45 KB)
Jerry Silvey
Child supporting parents: self administration
Abstract
Margaret Sims and Moira O'Connor
Parenting at the interface between two cultures Abstract
Rosemary Sinclair and Barbara Wellesley
The strategies that, in our experience, are critical to program sustainability
Abstract
Diana Smart, Ann Sanson, Lisa Johnson and John Toumbourou,
Civic responsibility among Australian adolescents
Abstract
Bruce Smyth
Young adult children of separated parents: The meat in the income support
sandwich? Abstract / Paper
(282 KB) Based on Child support for young adult children: shifting boundaries,
Family Matters no.55 Autumn 2000
Grace Soriano and Violet Kolar
Meeting the challenges of parenting; factors that enhance and hinder the
role of parents Abstract
Wendy Stone and Jody Hughes
What role for social capital in family policy - and how does it measure
up? Abstract / Paper (PDF 37 KB)
Robin Sullivan (Discussant)
Focus on fathering - symposium Abstract
/ Paper HTML or PDF (33 KB)
Robin, Sullivan, Jacqui Craig and Sue Howard,
Fathering and children - the contemporary context Abstract
/ Paper HTML or
PDF (36 KB)
Susie Sweeper and Kim Halford
Adjustment to relationship breakdown in recently separated adults: longitudinal
assessment of a new measure and testing a predictive model
Abstract
Aggie
Szukalska and Ann Harding
The changing face of poverty in Australia, 1982 to 1997-98
Abstract / Paper (PDF 188 KB)
Nola
Tudball
Doing it hard: a study of the needs of children and families of prisoners
in Victoria Abstract / Paper: PDF (41 KB)
Graeme Vimpani
NIFTEY - The National Investment for the Early Years
Abstract
Malcolm Voyce
The changing nature of social welfare in australia: from social entitlement
to the personal supervisory state Abstract
Maggie
Walter
Australian unwed fathers: what is their relationship with their children?
What factors impede or facilitate their level of parental involvement?
Abstract / Paper (PDF 47 KB)
Penny
Warner-Smith, Gita Mishra and Annette Dobson
Marriage, income and women's health
Abstract / Paper: HTML or PDF (39 KB)
Prue
Warrilow, Susan Biggs and Jennifer Ng
Learning to think flexibly? The reality versus the rhetoric of flexible
work practices Abstract / Paper:
HTML or PDF (165 KB)
Wendy
Weeks
Age and gender assumptions in Australian family policies: do they enhance
or impede democratic and co-operative family relationships?
Abstract / Paper: HTML
or PDF (36 KB)
Barbara Wellesley (Discussant)
Why we think Good Beginnings is making a difference to children,
families and the community - Symposium
Abstract / Paper: HTML or PDF (45 KB)
Peter
West
From Tarzan to The Terminator: boys, men and body image
Abstract / Paper: HTML or PDF (53 KB)
Ruth Weston
The Australian Family Panel Survey: an overview of its purpose and design
Abstract /
Paper Based on Planning the first wave of the Australian Family Panel
Survey, Australian Family Briefing no.9 April 2000
Ruth Weston and Bruce Smyth
Patterns of economic wellbeing after divorce: an update
Abstract / Paper (266 KB) Based on Financial
living standards after divorce, Family Matters no.55 Autumn 2000.
Lee Wightman and Don Edgar
What about small business? Abstract
Ben Williams, John Tombourou, Ann Sanson and Diana Smart
Patterns of substance usage in victorian adolescents between 13 and 16
Abstract
Katherine Wilson
Father involvement with pre-school and school aged children: motivators
and barriers Abstract
Sarah Wise
AIFS study of early childcare in Australian multi-cultural society: a research
plan Abstract
Sarah Wise (Discussant)
Permanent family placement for children unable to live
within their birth families: challenges and controversies - Symposium
Abstract
Tammy
Wolffs
Evaluation of the introduction of a $260 minimum child support assessment.
Abstract / Paper
Shirley Yeates and Jo Grimwade
Families and the aftermath of road trauma
Abstract
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