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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED255288 AUTHOR: Michie, Meredith, Ed.
TITLE: Institute of Family Studies Newsletter; No. 10,
August 1984.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1984
JOURNAL: Institute-of-Family-Studies-Newsletter; n10 Aug
1984
NOTE: 41 p.
AVAILABILITY: Institute of Family Studies, 766 Elizabeth
Street, Melbourne 3000, Australia (no price quoted).
ABSTRACT: This newsletter's first article is the director's
report "Double Standards in Australian Family Policy" by
Don Edgar. It asks for government support for families in
the form of programs and funding, not just rhetoric. The
next article, "IFS Research", also by Don Edgar, details
the past, current and future research of the Institute of
Family Studies. Short articles by researchers in the
Institute follow: "Remarriage Data" (Christine Kilmartin);
"IFS Study of the Economic Consequences of Marriage
Breakdown: Progress Report" (Peter McDonald); "Family
(Law?) Centres" (Don Edgar); "Adolescence and the Family"
(Gay Ochiltree); "Video Vignettes on Stepfamily Dynamics"
(Ilene Wolcott); "Social Statistics: A Comment" (Peter
McDonald); "Social Psychology and the Family: A Report on
the Annual General Meeting of the Australia Social
Psychologists" (Paul Amato); "Dependent Spouse Rebates and
Their Incidence" (Kerry Lovering); "Changes for Women in
Greece" (Liz Sharman); and "Changes in European Family Law:
England and West Germany" (Margaret Harrison). Short
Features include book reviews and articles about: (1)
changes in Institute staff; (2) titles recently published
by IFS; (3) the Australian Family Studies Database (AFAM),
which includes bibliographic informaton about publications
on families and family life in Australia; (4) the Work and
Family Information Centre in New York City; and (5)
conferences and workshops held in fall 1984 in Melbourne.
(CB)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Adolescents-; Conferences-; Databases-;
Divorce-; Family-Attitudes; Family-Financial-Resources;
Family-Structure; Federal-Legislation; Feminism-; Foreign
Countries; Government-Role; Marriage-; Poverty-; Research
Needs; Workshops-
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Family-Sociological-Unit; *Family
Programs; *Public-Policy; *Research-Projects
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