Parenting and guardianship
Alternative labels
Parenting skills
Report
Parent-focused interventions to support the behaviours of children with disability
This resource summarises the evidence about the effectiveness of parent-focused interventions designed to support children with intellectual disability and autistic children who display behaviours of concern.
Literature review
Non-payment of child support as economic abuse of women and children: a literature review
The non-payment of child support is a deeply gendered issue and remains an unrecognised form of economic abuse by many Australian government agencies and financial institutions. This report reveals extensive evidence of the way fathers are using child support as a weapon to perpetrate ongoing gendered violence against mothers.
Research Summary
What parents worry about: carer concerns for youth mental health and wellbeing
This report identifies the most common issues of concern for parents and carers across Australia, the issues that are having the greatest mental health impacts on their young people, and where parents and carers are turning for support.
Discussion paper
Child Safety’s policies on parents with disability
This paper follows a review of some of the Queensland Government Department of Child Safety’s publicly available policies. It addresses four concerning themes found throughout the policies as well as a break down of some specific issues found in a range of policy documents.
Report
Finding a balance? Work, family and economic security: insights from parents in the Life Chances Study
This report provides insights into how becoming and being a parent affects economic security and financial wellbeing.