To inform policy, research, and service delivery, a large-scale, National Parenting Pulse Survey captured the most up-to-date parenting experiences, challenges, and needs of parents in Australia. The survey revealed an ongoing requirement for support for parental mental health and self-care, and specific resources to address parents’ concerns about the negative effects of social media use...

This Surgeon General's Advisory highlights the stressors that impact the mental health and well-being of parents and caregivers, the critical link between parental mental health and children's long-term well-being, and the urgent need to better support parents, caregivers, and families. A Surgeon General’s Advisory is a public statement that calls the American people’s attention to...

This report explores sharing child care within opposite-sex couple families using the 4 Families in Australia Surveys conducted in 2020 and 2021. A key aim of this work was to find out how diverse the arrangements of parents are when it comes to sharing child care between partnered parents.

This report examines mothers’ take-up of Parental Leave Pay (PLP) and fathers’ take-up of Dad and Partner Pay (DAPP), two government payments designed to support eligible working mothers and fathers to take time off work to care for newborn or newly adopted children.

Universal credit (UC) is an integrated, means-tested benefit, that is replacing six ‘legacy’ benefits in the United Kingdom, combining out-of-work support with support for housing costs, incapacity and children. This report assesses the impact of the UC reform on households’ incomes and their financial incentives to work, as well as the practical experience of applying...