Media Releases Archive 2006
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2006
- 23 October 2006 - Family Matters No. 74 2006 is published. With a focus on children in context, this edition includes articles on the health and wellbeing of mothers of different ages and their infants, ideas for child and family services, parents of adult children with an intellectual disability, parents' perceptions of their neighbourhoods, and the paid work characteristics of mothers with infants. For further information and contacts regarding two articles - 'Paid work characteristics of mothers with infants' and 'Starting early, starting late: The health and wellbeing of mother and child', see the media summary and for full details see the table of contents and abstracts. Family Matters is available in print from the Institute, or as an online subscription from Informit e-Library
- 30 June 2006 - Just released Family Matters No. 73 2006. In addition to the Institute's Research Plan for 2006-2008, this edition includes articles on remote Indigenous households, on the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Survey, on the socio-demographic characteristics of new mothers, and trends in marriage and family formation. For full details see the table of contents and abstracts. Family Matters is available in print from the Institute, or as an online subscription from Informit e-Library
- 13 June 2006 - Parenting partnerships in culturally diverse child care settings: A care provider perspective a new research paper by Kelly Hand and Sarah Wise. The Institute's Child Care in Cultural Context study was designed to measure the childrearing beliefs, goals and practices of parents and carers of children from Anglo, Vietnamese and Somali backgrounds. This paper describes carers' attitudes towards working with parents, how much they engage parents about their childrearing practices at home, and barriers carers have encountered in accommodating parental preferences in the context of formal child care settings
- 6 June 2006 - Reservation wages and the earnings capacity of lone and couple mothers: Are wage expectations too high? - a new research paper by Matthew Gray and Jennifer Renda presents evidence on the extent to which non-working, lone and couple mothers who would like to work, can estimate the minimum wage which they need to be paid in order to accept a job offer (their reservation wage). See the AIFS Media release for key points