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Tue 23 Nov, 2010

Living With Addiction

Exploring the issues for families

This report explores and exposes issues that have arisen for New Zealand family members as they have supported a family member through an alcohol and/or other drug addiction problem.

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Blue Skies
Fri 4 Jun, 2010

Family Food Environment

Barriers to acquiring affordable and nutritious food in new zealand households

The Family Food Environment Survey (FFES) is a cross-sectional survey of 136 New Zealand families living in Dunedin and Wellington with one or more children aged between five and 18 years.

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Blue Skies
Fri 4 Jun, 2010

Being a Single Mum

Pacific Island mothers’ positive experiences of parenting

Discussions about parenting often cast single mothers in a negative light.

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Blue Skies
Thu 3 Jun, 2010

Crime Families in the News

Exploring media reports of young offenders and their families

Historically, youth crime has been a topic of great interest in New Zealand’s print media, but there has been little research on the families of young offenders.

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Wed 2 Dec, 2009

Heart and Head

Explanation of the meaning of fatherhood

University of Canterbury researchers Dr Jeffrey Gage, Associate Professor Ray Kirk and Professor Andrew Hornblow conducted in-depth i

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Blue Skies
Wed 18 Nov, 2009

Who Cares for People with Schizophrenia

Family carers' health, circumstances and adjustment

Families that care for a family member with mental illness need support in order to help them to do the best job they can

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Thu 15 Oct, 2009

Discipline in Context

Families' disciplinary practices for children aged under five

Kiwi families say they are increasingly using positive parenting techniques because they work, according to 100 ordinary families’ descriptions of their own parenting methods.

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Mon 1 May, 2006

New communication technologies and family life

This study aimed to draw together the international and national scholarly literature and New Zealand expert knowledge on Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and families. It is hoped that this document will usefully inform the work of the Families Commission in the area of ICTs.

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Wed 1 Mar, 2006

Les Familles et Whānau sans Frontières

New Zealand and Transnational Family Obligation

Around one in five people living in New Zealand were not born here and around 20 percent of people born here are believed to be living overseas.

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Sat 1 Aug, 2009

We’re a Family

A study of how lesbians and gay men are creating and maintaining family in New Zealand

Lesbians and gay men can face significant challenges as they seek to create and maintain families that include children but in most cases they overcome these challenges with considerable success, new research funded by the Families Commission has found.

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