Family demographics
Flow chart of Australian households, families and persons, starting from ‘Australia’ with 8,890,000 households, 6,705,000 families and 22,819,000 persons; breaking down into lone person households, with 2,068,000 persons, group households of 267,000 households and 616,000 persons, and family households. Family households contain one family households of 6,413,000 households, 6,413,000 families, 19,324,000 persons, and multi-family households of 142,000 households, 296,000 families and 811,000 persons. Family households, in addition to couples, children and other family members, family households may also include unrelated individuals. Therefore, the number of persons in family households will not equal the number of persons in families. Breaking down from family and multi-family households is couple families, with 5,691,000 families and 17,256,000 persons, one parent families with 909,000 families and 2,489,000 persons, and other families wi
Negative effects of divorce on children
Families then and now
- Why do families fall apart
| Negative effects of divorce on children | Hidden voices: family estrangement in adulthood |
| Families then and now | Family demographics |