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- Title
Parents, participation and planning.
- Authors
Pearse, Vic
- Abstract
The article discusses the role of parents in planning for families. In Australia there are two million families with dependent children. Eighteen per cent of these, or around 400,000 families, have no parent in work. As these families do not appear to have benefited from recent labour market improvements, there is the need to explore ways of providing assistance to these families to encourage and enable parents to take up paid work. There are some 600,000 families receiving Parenting Payment as income support, many of whom are already in paid work. Parenting Payment is paid to both single and partnered parents with low income. The partners of Parenting Payment customers have low incomes and many receive income support themselves. The challenge is to support parents caring for children at home while making sure that long periods out of the workforce do not jeopardise future choice for these people and their children. Under existing arrangements, Parenting Payment recipients can choose to access the Jobs, Education and Training program and the Job Network to receive assistance to improve their employment prospects.
- Subjects
AUSTRALIA; PARENT-child relationships; PARENTS; INCOME; FAMILIES; BUSINESS partnerships; GUARDIAN &; ward; DESERTION &; non-support
- Publication
Family Matters, 2000, Issue 56, p48
- ISSN
1030-2646
- Publication type
Article