An examination of trends concerning the dissolution of marriages and cohabiting relationships.The ways in which Australians form couple relationships have changed dramatically in the 20th century: marriage rates have fallen, those who marry do so at later ages, couples increasingly live together before marrying, and those who divorce are less likely to remarry.

Growing Up in Australia is the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (also known as LSAC). This study is following two representative cohorts of children and their families, recruited when the children were aged 0-1 years (B or infant cohort) or 4-5 years (K or child cohort). The main activities since the previous Annual Report have...

The Child Care in Cultural Context study was designed to measure the childrearing beliefs, goals and practices of parents and carers of children from Anglo, Vietnamese, and Somali backgrounds. In this paper Kelly Hand and Sarah Wise describe carers’ attitudes towards working with parents, how much they engage parents about their childrearing practices at home...

Matthew Gray and Jennifer Renda present evidence on the extent to which non-working, lone and couple mothers who would like to work, can estimate the minimum wage which they need to be paid in order to accept a job offer (their reservation wage).

This factsheet provides statistics on family circumstances – parents’ employment, residential location and country of birth, and Family type – and on adolescents themselves. The report also looks at parents’ and adolescents’ satisfaction with family relationships.