Download or read book Issues Facing Australian Families written by Robyn Batten and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social work text moving beyond the traditional nuclear family structure to consider contemporary Australia's diverse family experience. Includes articles on gender inequality and violence, children's rights and community care from specialist contributors. Issues are examined at the three levels of policy, programmes and practice in social work.
Download or read book The Family written by Lois J. Aspin and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Working with Vulnerable Families written by Fiona Arney and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-09 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poverty, domestic violence, marginalisation, drug and alcohol dependence are just some of the issues faced by many Australian families. Now in its second edition, Working with Vulnerable Families provides a comprehensive and evidence-based introduction to family-centred practice in Australia. It explores the ways in which health, education and social welfare professionals can support and protect children and their families. Fully revised and updated, with eight new chapters, the book examines recent research and programs on relationship-based family support, harnessing 'resilience' and working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families. It encourages readers to 'think child, think family, think community' in order to promote the development, wellbeing and safety of young children and future generations. Each chapter features learning goals, local case studies and reflective questions to help reinforce and extend the reader's understanding. Written by a diverse team of experts, this is an indispensable resource for students and practitioners alike.
Download or read book The Family in Australia written by Jerzy Krupinski and published by Pergamon. This book was released on 1978 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Article by D. Barwick annotated separately.
Download or read book Issues of Family Policy written by Kay Hallahan and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Looking at Families written by Western Australia. Task Force on Families in Western Australia and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Families and Australia s Economic Future written by Australian Institute of Family Studies and published by Institute. This book was released on 1985 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report discusses trends in the way Australian families are forming and re-forming, factors determining families' access to income, and proposals regarding reform of the income transfer system. The current shape of families in Australia is described in terms of a shift to marriage at a later age; leaving-home behavior of young people; the formation of "living-together" relationships among young people; lower fertility; smaller families; a shift in demand for services from the young to the aged; and increasing divorce rates. Levels and distribution of income are reported in relation to families under the poverty line; access of family members to employment; families' experience of unemployment; two-earner families; women's employment; and one-parent families. The discussion of policy strategies for the future delineates priority objectives, advances reform strategies for taxation and social security, and provides a guide to tax and social security reform issues and options for families. (RH)
Download or read book Australia s Welfare Wars Revisited written by Philip Mendes and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the role played by ideologies and lobby groups in determining welfare state outcomes with specific reference to up-to-date theories about globalisation.
Download or read book The Black Grapevine written by Linda Briskman and published by Federation Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Black Grapevine tells the extraordinary story of Indigenous efforts to stop children becoming part of the 'stolen generations' and to end the government policies and practices which destroyed their families.Linda Briskman uses the story of the Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Island Child Care (SNAICC) to centre her book. Indigenous people involved tell how they came together to form a national organisation for child care, how they found similar experiences from one end of Australia to the other, how they pooled experience and emotion to provide support for one another, how they lobbied for a national inquiry.And they campaigned. Indigenous activists fought with astonishing resilience for recognition of past and present practices, for the right to have Indigenous viewpoints to the forefront, and for resources.Briskman's story goes beyond the contest with the state to give a convincing portrait of the ways in which Indigenous groups worked. There are connections with international action, educational and fund-raising projects, and the much-vaunted annual Aboriginal and Islander Children's Day.She concludes by reflecting on the successes of campaigns and actions to date, and the extent of 'unfinished business'. Her strong academic background combines with the oral testimony of the activists to produce a fast-moving book that is both entertaining and rigorous.
Download or read book Contemporary Issues in Family Studies written by Angela Abela and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-10-02 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume tackles key issues in the changing nature of family life from a global perspective, and is essential reading for those studying and working with families. Covers changes in couple relationships and the challenges these pose; parenting practices and their implications for child development; key contemporary global issues, such as migration, poverty, and the internet, and their impact on the family; and the role of the state in supporting family relationships Includes a stellar cast of international contributors such as Paul Amato and John Coleman, and contributions from leading experts based in North Africa, Japan, Australia and New Zealand Discusses topics such as cohabitation, divorce, single-parent households, same-sex partnerships, fertility, and domestic violence Links research and practice and provides policy recommendations at the end of each chapter
Download or read book Modern Families written by Sotirios Sarantakos and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Families Policy and the Law written by Alan Hayes and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays explores some of the complexities that confront both those who frame social policy in Australia and those involved in the legal systems that intersect with child and family issues. Essays include: Trends in family transitions, forms and functioning: Essential issues for policy development and legislation; Ancestry, identity and meaning: The importance of biological ties in contemporary society; Past adoption practices: Key messages for service delivery responses and current policies; The forced adoption apology: Righting wrongs of a dark past; Current open adoptions: Mothers' perspectives; Perfecting adoption? Reflections on the rise of commercial offshore surrogacy and family formation in Australia; Use of surrogacy by Australians: Implications for policy and law reform; Secrecy, family relationships and the welfare of children born with the assistance of donor sperm: Developments in research, law and practice; Gay and lesbian parenting: The legislative response; Step-parenting; Grandparents as primary carers of their grandchildren: Policy and practice insights from research; Contemporary issues in child protection intake, referral and family support; Mandatory reporting laws; Children in the out-of-home care system; Justice and the protection of children; Children, families and the law: A view of the past with an eye to the future; The ties that bind: Separation, divorce and the indissolubility of parenthood; Confidentiality and 'family counselling' under the Family Law Act 1975; Has confidentiality in family dispute resolution reached its use-by date?; Family law: Challenges for responding to family violence in a federal system; Families with complex needs: Meeting the challenges of separation; Post-separation parenting arrangements involving minimal time with one parent; Family violence and financial outcomes after parental separation; Lionel Murphy and the dignified divorce: Of dreams and data; Prosecuting child sexual abuse: The role of social science evidence; The scientists are coming: What are the courts to do with social science research?; Social science and family law: From fallacies and fads to the facts of the matter; and Complex family issues: Collective awareness, common narratives and coordinated approaches to promoting resilience.
Download or read book Families Then and Now 1980 2010 written by Ruth E. Weston and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Australian Institute of Family Studies, this fact sheet reflects on how families have changed in Australia over the last few decades. It provides statistics on broad trends in relationships, household and family types, relationships within family households, marital status of lone parents, becoming parents, fertility trends, ex-nuptial births, parental employment, mothers' education, and child care. Despite all the changes outlined above, some fundamental things about families do not change. Most importantly, they remain the basic unit of society and the site in which most children are raised.
Download or read book The Australian Welfare State written by John Wilson and published by Macmillan Education AU. This book was released on 1996 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Textbook for tertiary students which provides documentary sources as well as commentaries from academics in the field to outline the historical development of the Australian welfare state. Suitable for introductory courses in social welfare, politics, sociology and public policy. The material is presented in five parts including: policies for the employed in the last century, the struggle of Australian women to receive employment and child-related benefits from the state, the development of policies relating to indigenous and immigrant Australians and how the welfare state has dealt with the aged and refugees. The final part considers documents in Australian history that contrast discordant understandings of the purposes of the welfare state. Includes a table of contents, an index and list of references. Also available in hardback.
Download or read book Gender in Early Childhood written by Nicola Yelland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will explore the ways in which young children perceive themselves and are viewed by others in terms of their gendered identities as individuals and as members of society. It considers research from a variety of perspectives in the context of home/family and school. Topics covered include: * the construction of gender from the time the child is conceived * the politics of category membership * analyses of play and art making * young children's experiences with technology * the influence of popular culture on the body image * gender equity policies in early childhood education * understanding sexual orientation. An examination and reflection of the issues will enable educators to improve their practice and have a greater understanding of the families and the children whom they teach. The diverse range and content of the research will make this book a valuable resource for all those interested in the education of young children. This book covers the issue of gender expectations of children with disabilities, and also discusses young childrens' experiences with technology and the ways in which they feel about their bodies. This book will be of great interest to all early childhood educators who are concerned about the ways in which the home and school impact on the lives of young children in terms of how they view themselves and how others view them. Trainee teachers will find this book helpful in developing their own attitudes, understandings and behaviours in relation to gender equity and young children.
Download or read book The Family Among the Australian Aborigines A Sociological Study written by Bronislaw Malinowski and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2015-12-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The problem of the social forms of family life still presents some obscurities. What appears to be most urgently needed is a careful investigation of facts in all the different ethnographical areas. I propose in this study to undertake this task for Australia. I shall avoid making any hypothetical assumptions, or discussing general problems which refer to the origin or evolution of the family. I wish only to describe in correct terms and as thoroughly as possible all that refers to actual family life in Australia. In other words I intend to give in outline the social morphology of the Australian family. It may be well to show briefly the necessity for this task, which to some may appear superfluous, and to indicate the lines on which it will be attempted. In the first place there are some contradictions with regard to the problem of relationship or kinship in Australia, which can be reduced to the question: Is kinship in Australia exclusively individual; or is it exclusively group kinship (or tribal kinship, as it often is called); and, further, do these two forms exclude each other or do they perhaps exist side by side? When Howitt says: "The social unit is not the individual, but the group; the former merely takes the relationships of his group, which are of group to group," this obviously means that there is no individual relationship, consequently no individual family in Australia. It is important to note that the passage just quoted is placed in the chapter on Relationship in Howitt's chief work on Australia, and that consequently it refers to all the tribes described by the author, i. e. to the majority of the known Australian tribes. The same opinion that there is only group relationship and no individual family is supported by another passage, no less important and general, for it is placed at the conclusion of Howitt's article on the organization of the Australian tribes in general: "It has been shown that the fundamental idea in the conception of an Australian community is its division into two groups. The relationships which obtain between the members of them are also those of group to group." And again: "The unit of aboriginal society is, therefore, not the individual, but the group. It is the group which marries the group and which begets the group." There are also a few passages in Spencer and Gillen which deny the existence of the individual family, at least in some tribes.
Download or read book The Family Among the Australian Aborigines written by Bronislaw Malinowski and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Family Among the Australian Aborigines: A Sociological Study The importance of the subject treated in this study, as well as the prominent part played by the Australian evidence in the problem of kinship, will, it is believed, amply justify a detailed inquiry into the institution of the family in Australia. It is, however, always desirable for a monograph like the present one, besides being a mere collection and description of facts, to have a sufficiently wide theoretical scope. It ought to demonstrate some general principle upon the particular example treated, and to approach the problem from a new standpoint. I wish here shortly to indicate how far a slight and imperfect attempt in this direction has been made. In describing the facts of family life in Australia I have tried to show that even if the problems of origins and development of an institution be put aside and the inquiry be limited to the actual facts (in this case to the actual working of the aboriginal kinship organization), there are plenty of subjects of great theoretical importance, some of which, as yet not fully considered by sociologists. On the other hand, I have tried to show that in dealing with purely sociological problems it is necessary, in order to do justice to the complexity and fulness of social phenomena, to draw into the field of inquiry a series of facts often hitherto partially or completely neglected. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
