Research Catalog

Title

Flexible families : new directions for Australian communities / edited by Jane Inglis and Lyla Rogan.

Publication

Leichhardt, NSW : Pluto Press Australia in association with the Australian Council of Social Service, Darlinghurst, NSW, 1994.

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Additional Authors

• Inglis, Jane (Jane Elizabeth)
• Rogan, Lyla.
• Australian Council of Social Service.

Description

248 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

Draws on many of the strands in the wide ranging debate on the family, providing an invaluable contribution to the debate. It looks at such diverse issues as: the relationship between the family and the State; the contribution of Aboriginal family values to Australian family life; gender roles and dealing with work and family; community support services for families; family incomes and inequality; sole parents and social security; the structure of work and workplace demands and the family; legal perceptions of the family and same sex partners; the family and educational futures.

Subject

• Family policy > Australia
• Family services > Australia
• Families > Economic aspects > Australia

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Reconsidering the family and the State -- 2. Upstairs, downstairs : family incomes and inequality -- 3. Sole parents, the social security system and the community -- 4. Supporting, exploiting or displacing the family? -- 5. Community support services for families -- 6. The contribution of Aboriginal family values to Australian family life -- 7. Changing gender roles to deal with work and family.

ISBN

1864030178

LCCN

^^^95135788^

OCLC

• 38357290
• SCSB-11466784

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library