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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED254488 AUTHOR:
TITLE: Australian Family Research Conference Proceedings
(Canberra, Australia, November 23-25, 1983). Volume VI:
Family Life.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1984
NOTE: 292 p.; For other volumes in the series, see SO 016
321-327. Document contains small print.
AVAILABILITY: Institute of Family Studies, 766 Elizabeth
St., Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 3000 ($8.00 each; $50
for seven volumes).
ABSTRACT: Family life is the focus of this sixth volume in
a series containing the proceedings of the 1983 Australian
Family Research Conference. The papers are organized under
two major sections: Children and Families and Family
Environments. Papers and authors included are: "Family
Conflict and Child Competence" (Gay Ochiltree and Paul
Amato), "Me in My Family: A Comparative Study of Young
Children's Descriptions of Their Intra-Family Interactions"
(Lorraine Riach), "Neighbourhood Quality and Child
Adjustment" (A. Burns and R. Homel), "The Effects of
Children on Family Life in New Zealand and Australia" (Anne
Meade, Margaret Rosemergy, and Raylee Johnston), "A
Comparison of Attitudes to Childrearing of Parents of
Handicapped and Non-Handicapped Children" (Roger J. Rees),
"The Impact of Changing Patterns of Family Living Including
Unemployment on Identity Formation in Late Adolescence"
(Betsy Wearing and Deirdre James), "The Contribution of
Longitudinal Studies to Family Research" (Ken Fogelman),
"Women Workers on Roster: Some Implications for Family
Life" (Hilary Rumley), "Living on the Land: Family Decision
Making and Farm Production" (Russel A. Craig and Ann K.
Killen), and "Cohabitation and Marriage: Family
Environments in Formal and Informal Contexts" (Sotirios
Sarantakos). (RM)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Adolescents-; Child-Rearing; Comparative
Analysis; Decision-Making; Disabilities-; Employed-Women;
Family-Problems; Family-Relationship; Farmers-; Foreign
Countries; Longitudinal-Studies; Marriage-; Neighborhoods-;
Nuclear-Family; Parent-Attitudes; Self-Concept; Social
Change; Social-Science-Research; Unemployment-
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Children-; *Family-Sociological-Unit;
*Family-Life
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