Sixty-one mothers from Victoria and South Australia took part in in-depth interviews about work and child care arrangements. In this paper for the 2004 Australian Institute of Family Studies conference Kelly Hand explores mother's reasons for using child care or caring for their children at home, their views on the child care available to them...

This report on the Fertility Decision Making Project, by Ruth Weston, Lixia Qu, Robyn Parker and Michael Alexander, discusses the first findings from a national random survey of men and women aged between 20 and 39 years focusing on fertility decision making.

The papers in this publication have been developed from presentations made at a workshop held at the Australian Institute of Family Studies in 2001. The purpose of that meeting was to explore the possibility of establishing a national multidisciplinary research partnership focused on the needs of Australian children. The first paper, 'New ways of causal...

In Australia, as elsewhere, not a great deal is known about the 'nuts and bolts' of parent-child contact after separation. This report, edited by Bruce Smyth, uses information gained from a series of focus groups and the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey to identify patterns of parenting after separation and factors that...

The average hours worked by full-time employees in Australia have increased since the late 1970s. This, combined with increases in female labour force participation, has led to concerns about the impact of long work hours on family life. In this paper Ruth Weston, Matthew Gray, Lixia Qu and David Stanton explore the relationship between fathers'...