Parents have faced unprecedented stress during the pandemic as they care for children while juggling paid work from home. However, very little research so far has focused on family well-being during the pandemic. Subhadra Evans, Antonina Mikocka-Walu and Elizabeth Westrupp investigate. We asked more than 2,000...
Eighty years after Lassie first captured hearts in English novelist Eric Mowbray Knight's classic novel 'Lassie Come-Home', the iconic long-haired collie is returning in this remake of the original 1943 film. Reviewed by the Australian Council on Children and the Media (ACCM) Full review see Lassie...
The holiday season doesn’t always have to be stressful. Freya Higgins-Desbiolles suggests ways you can enjoy it a bit more. Holidays are a time of high stress. Despite the delight of not having to work for several days or even weeks, holidays come with pressures. These can...
Professor of Social Work, Cathy Humphreys discusses the risks of family violence during COVID-19 isolation and which support services are working well.Listen to the podcast Link here“Isolation is bad for a lot of people,” says Cathy Humphreys, Professor of Social Work at the University of...
Mark Boulet & Kim Borg report how Festive celebrations can leave you with more than one kind of hangover – what to do with the debris of leftover food, gift wrapping, damaged decorations and mountains of plastic packaging? But with some preparation, a little restraint and...
It’s nice to sit on a beach and watch my girls play with their team of cousins, knowing that they will all share the same fond memories of Christmas, writes Joseph Kelly’s who finds his large family holidays at Christmas have come full circle. Having emigrated...
Friends since their toddler days, Annabel Crabb and Wendy Sharpe grew up on the Adelaide Plains, in a small town called Two Wells. They shared a love of cooking, especially baking cakes that could be suitable for gala days or trading tables in country South Australia. The two mates that loved having adventures...
Yes, there's money in the budget for school chaplains. But that doesn't mean your child will be preached to writes Mandie Shean The 2020-21 budget has continued funding for the National School Chaplaincy Program that received A$247 million over four years in the 2018-19 budget. According to...
Most Australians don’t realise how early their fertility starts to wane and many place too much faith in IVF as a back-up measure, new research suggests. A survey of more than 700 Australians found most respondents (58 per cent) believe a woman’s fertility starts to decline...
Autism parents fear new NDIS assessment criteria could restrict their child’s needs and access to funding There are currently 353,880 people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in Australia – a 40 per cent increase since 2014. With the prevalence of the condition growing in our population,...
