The Attitudes to Child Support Study, conducted by the AIFS early in 2005, was designed to inform the work of the Ministerial Taskforce on Child Support. Data were obtained from a general population sample of 1001 people aged between 18 and 64 years and from a national random sample of 620 separated/divorced parents with at...

Lenny Roth surveys the main legal restrictions on children and forms of discrimination against children. He discusses the rights of children at school and in consenting to medical treatment, looks at parents' powers and the exclusion of children from shopping centres, and concludes by examining the human rights of children in NSW.

Leah Bromfield and Daryl Higgins provide a comprehensive national snapshot of Australian statutory child protection services covering: who is responsible for child protection; intake procedures; who notifies concerns to child protection services; and the process of providing child protection services in Australian states and territories (intake, risk assessment, investigation and case management).

Childhood, particularly early childhood, has become a key priority for governments and non-government organisations, in response to emerging concern about Australia's children in the context of rapid social change, as well as compelling evidence about the importance of the early years. This report brings together a wide variety of data, including information about individual, family...

Online child pornography is an unintended aspect of the widespread adoption of information and communications technologies. Tony Krone looks at 31 well-publicised operations and considers the law enforcement implications of these for future operations. The paper starts to fill a significant gap in our understanding of online child pornography.