Families Matter
9th Australian Institute of Family Studies Conference
Melbourne, 9-11 February 2005
Proceedings
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Opening/ Keynote addresses
Senator the Hon Kay Patterson
Minister for Family and Community Services
Opening Address
Don Edgar
Adjunct Professor, Centre for Workplace Culture and Change, RMIT
AIFS and the Work-Family Roundabout (PDF 158 KB) | RTF ( 36 KB)
Prue Goward
Federal Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission
After the barbeque: women, men, work and family
Papers
Michael Alexander
The determinants of employment for Australian mothers - a further analysis of lone and coupled mothers
Tom Altobelli
Family lawyers' use and perceptions of Primary Dispute Resolution
Fiona Andrews
Managing the family's health: Preferences and experiences of women with different working arrangements
Alison Angleton
A pilot intervention to increase social and economic participation for lone mothers
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Maureen Baker
Restructuring family policies: trans-national organizations and 'soft politicking' for reform
Janeen Baxter and Belinda Hewitt
Paying for housework: Resources, demand and attitudes
Jennifer Baxter
Returning to work following childbearing in Australia
Helen Berry
Trust and distress in three generations of coastal Australians
Andrew Bickerdike
Mediated post-separation parenting arrangements: A content analysis of two decades of file records
Andrew Bickerdike, Alice Bailey, Julia Pullen and Helen Cleake
Family violence and family mediation. An arranged marriage or an opportunity for growth
Michael Bittman and Judy Brown
Is part-time work a solution to reconciling the pressures of work and family?
Tamara Blakemore
Risk factors for injury in early childhood: First findings from Wave 1 of Growing Up in Australia, the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children
Bruce Bradbury and Kate Norris
Income and separation
Leah Bromfield and Daryl Higgins
The course and characteristics of chronic and isolated child maltreatment
Peter Butterworth
Mental health problems within couples: considering similarity in the mental health of married couples in Australia
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Ellen Cahill
Opening Closed Doors: Parent Support Services for Refugee Families
Claire Cartwright
Life stories of young adults who experienced parental divorce as children or adolescents
Judy Cashmore, Patrick Parkinson and Judi Single
Children's views of the fairness of post-separation arrangements
Rebecca Cassells, Justine McNamara, Rachel Lloyd and Ann Harding
Perceptions of child care affordability and availability in Australia: what the HILDA Survey tells us
Paula Chevalier, Karen Wilson, Ann Sanson and Alison Morehead
Long-term research program for LSAC
Richard Chisholm
Post-separation parenting: Public debates, reports, and policies
Ross Clare
Superannuation and contemporary families - issues of dependence, interdependence, and self reliance
Kay Cook
Exploring low-income women's welfare stigma through rich point analysis
Lea Crisante
Fiafia and Ice-breaker Morning Tea: Parent Education in Pacific Island Communities
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Lisa da Silva and Sarah Wise
Parent perspectives on child care quality in a culturally diverse sample
David de Vaus and Lixia Qu
Work role reversal among couples: Selected characteristics and the division of domestic labour
Jane Dickenson and Robert Johnstone
Growing Up in Australia, the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children - Early data
Alex Dolan, Peter McLean and David Roland
Home equity, retirement incomes and family relationships
Lyn Dowling
Seasons for Growth - resiliencing children and families post divorce or separation
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Ben Edwards, Sarah Wise, Jennifer Bowes, Ann Sanson, Judy Ungerer, Linda Harrison and Tracey Simpson
Why fathers and grandparents are included in children's weekly child care arrangements
Vivienne Elizabeth
Children in the frontline of family violence prevention: A site of unease?
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Shona Gates
Parents and Kids Together: supporting families early
Sarah Gill, Peter Butterworth and Bryan Rodgers
Retirement and mental health in the Australian population: Findings from nation-wide studies
Brad Gray
There's No Pride In Domestic Violence: Gay and Lesbian Community Awareness Campaign
Michael Green
Shared parenting: popular myths
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Nora Abdul Hak and Ahmad Ibrahim Kulliyyah
Reconciliation and conciliation in Malaysia: A review of the relevant provisions of the Law Reform (Marriage and Divorce) Act, 1976; and their practice
Anne Hampshire and Anuschka Borer
Developing resilience at every stage of a young person's life
Anne Hampshire and Denise Chadwick
Hearing from young Australians: Implications for policy and practice
Kelly Hand
Mothers' use of and beliefs about child care
Kelly Hand and Jody Hughes
Mothers' attitudes to parenting and paid work: A typology?
Clare Hargreaves and Jeanette Nagorcka
Municipal Early Years Plans: Local planning to improve outcomes for children
Marina Harvey
Predicting work and family efficacy
Bruce Hawthorne
Australian men's experience of nonresident fathering
Jacqueline Hayden, Katey de Gioia, Fay Hadley and Robin Dundas
Getting it together - using early childhood settings to facilitate health and wellbeing for and with families
Melanie Heenan
Just 'keeping the peace' - A reluctance to respond to male partner sexual violence
Kerry Hernandez
Beyond the boom gate
Daryl Higgins
Differentiating between child maltreatment experiences
Amanda Hosking and Mark Western
The effects of non-standard employment on work-family balance
Jody Hughes and Kelly Hand
Does money matter? Mothers' views about money and how it influences employment decisions
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Constance Jenkin and Pat Jewell
Early intervention parenting project
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Wilawan Kanjanapan
Age differences in values relating to work, savings habits and borrowing: evidence from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey
Susie Kelly and Julie Kos
Child protection data in Australia: Current issues and future improvements
Evelyn Khoo
Protecting our children
Patricia Kiely
A longitudinal evaluation of family group conferencing
Violet Kolar
'A home... for my children': Findings from a longitudinal study of families who have experienced homelessness
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Primrose Letcher, Ann Sanson and Diana Smart
Differing patterns of anxiety from late childhood to late adolescence: Precursors and correlates
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Sue McCubbin
CSA - Connecting separated parents to services
Jenn McIntosh and Lawrie Moloney
Child inclusive practice in high conflict post-separation parenting disputes: What is it, why use it and does it work?
Jennifer McIntosh
The Child behind family law: Australian children's experiences of parental conflict prior to mediation
Joye McLaughlin
The changing nature of nurture
Justine McNamara, Rachel Lloyd, Matthew Toohey and Ann Harding
Prosperity for all? How low income families have fared in the boom times
Paula Mance
To what extent do family characteristics explain child care use in Australia for children under school age?
Christine Mason and Debbie Noble-Carr
Towards a national picture of children's services
Tim Moore
Towards improved support for families of young children: The role of communities
Alison Morehead
Beyond preference and choice: how mothers allocate time to work and family
Leonie Morgan
Quality part-time work - 'It shouldn't be so hard!'
Adele Mulcaster
The ACT Family Violence Intervention Project
Paul Murphy, Alan Campbell and Lisbeth Pike
Our children's health and safety needs: progress report on a parenting plan template
Maree Murray and Andrian Beavis
Families and Post-School Plans
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Alexandra Osborn and Paul Delfabbro
Children with high support needs in Australian out-of-home care: A national comparative study
Gayle Osborne
Y it takes a village: YWVCA NSW's integrated approach to supporting individuals and families across their lifetimes
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Judith Peirce
Family violence and the law: Putting 'private' violence on the public agenda
Lisbeth Pike, Paul Murphy and Linley Ford
Columbus Stage III report: feedback from parents, children, and service providers
Sharon Pittaway
Legitimate voices: Teen mothers and education
Jan Pryor
The child-stepparent relationship: its fragility and its importance
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Lixia Qu and Sarah Wise
Multiple child care arrangements in Australia
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Alan Ralph and Helen Stallman
Teenagers' reports of what their parents do: Links to risk and protective factors for behavioural and emotional problems in adolescents at the transition to high school
Alan Ralph, Helen Stallman and Matthew R. Sanders
Teen Triple P: A universal approach to reducing risk factors for behavioural and emotional problems in adolescents at the transition to high school
Ken Reed, Betsy Blunsdon, Steven McEachern and Nicola McNeil
Urban/regional differences in social capital in Victoria - implications for theory and measurement
Jennifer Renda
How long-term health problems impact on mothers' employment decisions
Nick Richardson
Connections between antisocial behaviour and involvement in victimisation incidents
Giovanna Richmond
The nexus between child health and child protection: A case study on policy activism
Amanda Robertson and Jianfei Gong
Key demographic and income features of the Family Tax Benefit Part A customer population
Bryan Rodgers and Anna Stitzel
Parental divorce and adult social and psychological outcomes over three generations
Kevin Runions and Daniel Keating
Authoritarian parenting and community context in the early development of hostile processing and behaviour
Penny Ryan and Rosangela Merlo
Preventing family homelessness: Results of the final evaluation of the Family Homelessness Prevention Pilot
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Barry Salmon
Implementing a community visitor program for children in foster care
Ann Sanson and Sebastian Misson
Summarising children's wellbeing: The LSAC outcome index
Anna Sarkadi and Sven Bremberg
'Help me someone out there! I can't do this anymore': interaction as a crucial component of online social support
Mary Sayers, Sharon Goldfeld, Melissa Coutts and Sven Silburn
The Australian Early Development Index, building better communities for children
Marjorie Seiffert
Families and Schools Together as a community development tool in remote Indigenous communities in Northern Territory
Alison Shortt and John W. Toumbourou
Resilient Families: A program to promote health and wellbeing in adolescents and their families
Margaret Sims, Andrew Guilfoyle and Trevor Parry
Children's well-being in child care
Diana Smart and Ann Sanson
What is life like for young Australians today, and how well are they faring?
Bruce Smyth
'Time with mum, time with dad': Parent-child contact schedules after divorce
Ciara Smyth and Marilyn McHugh
Carers' perception of their fostering role
Suzie Sweeper
Does time heal a broken heart? The longitudinal trajectory of relationship separation adjustment
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Janet Taylor
Life chances and social exclusion: eleven years on
Nicola Taylor
Children's participation in custody/access decisions in New Zealand
Nicola Taylor and Anne Smith
Stop it: It hurts me! Children and physical punishment
Habtemariam Tesfaghiorghis
Australia's fertility: A HILDA based analyses
Shane Thomas and Mick Naughton
Developing innovative partnership approaches to support vulnerable children and their families: Preliminary Victorian research findings
Matthew Toohey
The effectiveness of Child Care Benefit at improving returns to work for women
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Rebecca Valenzuela
Child welfare in Australia: How effective are social transfers?
Suzanne Vassallo, Diana Smart, Ann Sanson, Anne Harris, Samantha Cockfield, Allison Mcintyre and Warren Harrison
Risky driving among young adults: Trends and precursors
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Charles Waldegrave
Pioneering, dismantling and regaining the welfare state: New Zealand and a modern case study
Karen Weston
National children's services workforce project
Ruth Weston and Lixia Qu
Having children: The actual versus the ideal and expected
Ruth Weston, Lixia Qu and David de Vaus
Partnership formation and stability
Janet Wheeler
Decision-making styles of women who choose not to have children
Gillian Whitehouse and Carol Soloff
Parental leave and return to work: The design and implementation of a national survey
Sarah Wise and Ben Edwards
Disruption of parental relationships, current family circumstances and children's psychological adjustment
Sarah Wise, Ben Edwards, Jennifer Bowes, Ann Sanson, Judy Ungerer, Linda Harrison and Tracey Simpson
The relation of multiple and changeable child care arrangements to early communication skills
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Steve Zubrick, Melissa Wake, Judy Ungerer, Linda Harrison, Donna Berthelsen and Jan Nicholson
Overview of measurement in Growing Up in Australia