The modern family is under strain. What we crave most from our families is intimacy, warmth
and self-fulfilment but we often find this difficult to achieve. We hold onto these expectations …

This paper describes the range of policies that might be used to support fertility rates at a
moderate level, that is, around an average of 1.7-1.9 births per woman. The paper argues …

This book describes how families have changed in Australia over the last 30 years. It
presents statistics on the diversity of family types, the changes and transitions a family may …

In this timely book Lyn Craig provides the first comprehensive account of how parents divide
their time between caring for children, housework, paid work and leisure. Using large-scale …

Economic theory suggests that women's labour supply decisions can be understood through
the careful modelling of their preferences for work and leisure and of the constraints that they …

Time use studies find that employed mothers reduce their parental childcare time by much
less than an hour for every hour they spend in market work. This paper uses data from the …

First published in 1992, Women's Employment and the Capitalist Family is an analysis of the
contemporary political interest in the position of women. The author critically assesses much …

In the 1999 round of the United Nation's periodic survey of population policies (United
Nations 2000), 28 countries with below replacement fertility considered that their fertility rate …

Background Paid employment is increasingly undertaken by mothers as their children age,
with the majority of women being in employment by the time their offspring are adult …

Acknowledgements Alas, the great mortality declines of the twentieth century do not spare
all of us an early death. I should like to dedicate this article to the memory of Clifford C …