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Special Issue on Research Funded by The Families Commission

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Table of Contents

• Foreword
• The Family in Social Policy: an Introduction to the Families Commission Special Issue
  Jan Pryor

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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