Social Policy Journal of New Zealand - Issue 35 June 2009
Special Issue on Research Funded by The Families Commission
Table of Contents
Contextualising the Family
- Focus on Families: New Zealand Families of Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Jo Cribb - Shortcutting Policy: From Concept to Action for Family-Centred Communities
Francis Luketina, Families Commission - Beyond Reasonable Debt: A Background Report on the Indebtedness of New Zealand Families
Jaimie Legge and Anne Heynes
Working Families
- Making it Work: The Impacts of Flexible Working Arrangements on New Zealand Families
Lindy Fursman and Nita Zodgekar - Parent's Long Work Hours and the Impact on Family Life
Lindy Fursman - Juggling Acts: How Parents Working Non-Standard Hours Arrange Care for their Pre-School Children
Janine Moss
Pasifika Families
- Living the Tokelauan Way in New Zealand
Gina Pene, Marisa Peita and Philippa Howden-Chapman - Using Census Data to Examine Changes in Wellbeing for Samoan, Cook Island, Tongan and Niuean Households
Gerard Cotterell, Martin von Randow and Stephen McTaggart - The Meaning of Family and Home for Young Pasifika People Involved in Gangs in the Suburbs of South Auckland
Camille Nakhid
Parenting
- Putting the Kids First: Caring for Children after Separation
Jeremy Robertson, Jan Pryor and Janine Moss - Creating Spaces to Listen to Parents' Voices: Methodological Reflections on the Early Childhood Care and Education Project Involving Migrant and Refugee Families
Sara Kindon and Anne Broome
Providing help for Families
- New Zealanders' Experiences of Supporting Couple Relationships
Carla Guy - Keeping Older People Safe by Preventing Elder Abuse and Neglect
Kathryn Peri, Janet Fanslow, Jennifer Hand and John Parsons
Book reviews
- The New Zealand Family from 1840 - A Demographic History by Ian Pool, Arunachalam Dharamlingham and Janet Sceats
Reviewed by Len Cook - Children in Changing Families by Jan Pryor and Bryan Rodgers
Reviewed by Jan Rodwell
