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Young people can make big savings living with their parents, but it throws up some thorny issues.
In Australian picture books, family representation has been overwhelmingly traditional. But this may be changing.
How do women decide how many children to have and when to have them? The data reveal a few major patterns.
Family is far more important for developing engagement of young people in civil society than previously thought.
Human capital is a key contributor to a country's economy. Here's how families and the state can nurture this asset.
More attention needs to be paid to aligning South Africa's family policy with the realities of everyday life.
Over the past 20 years, the number of American households that have grandparents, their kids and their grandkids living under the same roof has nearly doubled.
Whether they stay with the same organisations or not, family members have a strong influence on each others' volunteer habits.
The media interest in the New Zealand leader, who gave birth this summer, is an illustration of the difficulties faced by women who choose to pursue a career without sacrificing their lives as mothers.
Poorer families don't have the resources to achieve the same as better off families – yet they're being blamed for their situation.
Urban policies are based on assumptions of a "normal household" and what buildings for it should look like. So this research project explored how people feel about children in high-density housing.
A new female offender strategy in England and Wales plans to put fewer women in prisons. Here's why that's so important.
Simply based on how they are housed, forcibly separating immigrant kids from their families is bound to make a bad situation worse.
New research shows childhood in Europe lasts on average until age 25, while old age starts at 60.
Middle-class houses in the US have grown ever larger. The average single-family home is almost twice the size of a home in the 1960s. It's time to consider the downsides of sizing up.
The modelling shows that Coalition governments tend to be much more fiscally conservative in their tax and welfare policies than Labor governments.
Research suggests that government spending on very young children is a good investment.
The demographics, which include declining numbers of adult children free to step up and potentially fewer immigrants, suggest that this big problem society faces will get bigger.
It's widely accepted that young people living in children's homes or foster care are vulnerable to mental illness, but new research shows that social media can actually help.
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Professor of Human Rights Law, Monash University
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Lecturer in Children, Young People and Familes, Edge Hill University
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ARC Future Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Professorial Fellow, Jumbunna IHL, University of Technology Sydney
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Research Fellow in Sociology, University of Melbourne
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Professor of Employment Relations, Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing, Griffith University
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Associate Professor, College of Arts, Society & Education, James Cook University
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Emeritus Professor University of South Australia, University of South Australia
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Lecturer in Critical Thinking; Curriculum Director, UQ Critical Thinking Project, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor, School of Demography, Australian National University
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Senior Research Fellow, School of Justice, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Dean (Research Training), College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
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Senior Research Fellow at City Futures Research Centre, UNSW
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Holcim (US) Professor at the Ross School of Business and School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan
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Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Aston University
