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The article focuses on the working paper "Family Relationships and Intergenerations Exchange in Later Life," by Christine Millward. This new working paper from the Australian Institute of Family Studies, is based on data from the Later Life Families Study, conducted in late 1996. The paper explores family relations and supports in the light of the trend toward redistribution of private and public resources for family support services and welfare provision. It ties together many aspects of the intergenerational obligations and exchanges experienced by people aged between 50 and 70 years.

This article presents reference material relating to families across the life course represent an important component of the information available on the Australian Family & Society Abstracts database at the Australian Institute of Family Studies. All of these references are available on interlibrary loan from the Institute's Family Information Centre, with a few of them being available online. The article "Family Relationships Education Services," outlines family relationships education services which offers preventive activities focusing on providing information and skills to foster positive and stable relationships. The services aim to enhance the achievement of sustained family relationships through increased self awareness and understanding of relationships and processes, the capacity to apply them,and an awareness of community resources and support groups. The research paper "Towards Understanding the Reasons for Divorce," examines the reasons for divorce in relation to selected demographic and socio-economic factors, who initiated separation, whether assistance was sought during the marriage, whether the couple prepared for their final separation, aspects of post-divorce adjustment and reflections of regret.