The title of this volume was chosen to describe the broad range of activities with which the Australian Institute of Family Studies has been associated during the past twenty-one years. By browsing through the citations, it is possible to obtain a picture of the many projects and activities undertaken at the Institute.

The way property is divided on divorce is a key issue for many families, and one that has attracted considerable debate over the past two decades. Yet despite the importance of property division to parties negotiating the divorce transition it has been more than a decade since broad-based empirical research on this issue has been...

To inform the Institute's Families, Social Capital and Citizenship project, this paper contributes to the development of clear links between theorised and empirical understandings of social capital by: establishing a theoretically informed measurement framework for empirical investigation of social capital; and reviewing existing measures of social capital in light of this framework. The paper concludes...

The effect of home-child care continuities and discontinuities has special significance in Australian society where the extent of cultural diversity suggests real potential for contrasting approaches to the care and socialisation of children. This paper describes a new Institute study that aims to help fill a gap in the research literature concerning the influence of...

A decade or so ago, mothers (and their children) in Australia were found to be at an economic disadvantage after divorce compared with fathers. Since the late 1980s, however, significant social and economic change may have improved the financial living standards of divorced women relative to divorced men. This change includes the introduction of the...