Background Lone parents and their children experience higher than average levels of
adverse health and social outcomes, much of which are explained by high rates of poverty …

Children's health and development outcomes follow a social gradient: the further up the
socioeconomic spectrum, the better the outcomes. Based upon a review of multiple forms of …

Purpose–Over the last 20 years, food banks in Australia have expanded nationwide and are
a well-organised “industry” operating as a third tier of the emergency food relief system. The …

Human agency is core to social work. Practice theories and frameworks position human
agency as socially mediated, but assume that people possess human agency to play …

Executive summary Perpetrators of domestic violence use multiple control tactics which
exacerbate women's economic disadvantage. As well as physical and psychological abuse …

This article concerns the relationship between shame and lived experiences of welfare in
Australia, a multicultural settler colony. References to shame abound in the literature dealing …

When Welfare to Work activities for single parents were first introduced in the 2005
Commonwealth Budget, the primary claim was that these measures would increase …

Although social exclusion is often described as an outcome of paternal imprisonment, few
studies have directly measured the extent of social exclusion in prisoners' families or …

In this chapter we discuss the ways in which work–family researchers can better include
underrepresented populations in work–family scholarship. Extant research on five example …

The election of an Australian Labor Government in Australia in 2007 saw 'social
inclusion'emerge as the official and overarching social policy agenda. Being 'included'was …