In this climate of the first coalition government of MMP, with its focus on the political
environment of policy making, any text on social policy would be hard pressed to hold the …

New Zealand's School Dental Service (SDS) was founded in 1921, partly as a response to
the “appalling” state of children's teeth, but also at a time when social policy became …

Emphasising the voices and rights of children, international expert Anne Smith examines the
latest thinking on children's learning and development. Contemporary theories and research …

From whalers and traders marrying into Maori families in the early 19th century to the growth
of interracial marriages in the later 20th, Matters of the Heart unravels the long history of …

Madness in the Family explores how colonial families coped with insanity through a trans-
colonial study of the relationships between families and public colonial hospitals for the …

In this timely book, New Zealand's best-known commentator on population trends,
Distinguished Professor Paul Spoonley, shows how, as New Zealand moves into the 2020s …

While marriage rates are relatively stable among better‐educated men and women, they are
rapidly declining among those with low educational attainment. this development has been …

Introduction Children of people who smoke are more likely to take up smoking themselves.
In Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ), adolescent smoking declined dramatically between 2000 …

The inner city of Auckland, comprising the inner suburbs and the Central Business District
(CBD) has undergone a process of reurbanisation in recent years. Following …

The survival of Indigenous peoples in the CANZUS states of Canada, Australia, Aotearoa
New Zealand, and the United States is nothing short of remarkable. Not only have …