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Parenting Today provides insights across key areas of family life
Findings are being released progressively across a range of areas shaping family life in Australia today.
Parenting matters, and so does understanding how parents are faring
Parents and carers play a central role in children’s development and wellbeing. Yet, until now, Australia has lacked large-scale national data capturing the experiences and realities of parenting. This means parent experiences have not always been visible in policy, research and service planning.
Parenting Today helps address this gap by providing up-to-date evidence on parents’ strengths, the pressures they face, the support networks they rely on, and the broader social and environmental factors influencing family life.
Available now: Parent wellbeing
The first release of findings offers insights into parent mental health and wellbeing, including loneliness, psychological distress, self-compassion and the factors that help parents feel supported and resilient.
Coming soon
Upcoming releases will explore parenting in the digital age, the experiences of young parents, fathers’ engagement in parenting research, parenting in the early years and parenting during adolescence.
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Parenting Today is a national evidence base designed to be used. The findings can inform and support policy, services, research and public understanding.
The Parenting Today research team can provide tailored briefings and analysis, extend data collection to reach particular parent groups, or discuss opportunities for future survey waves.
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