ENHANCING WELLBEING OVER THE FAMILY LIFE COURSE

Life transitions and women's desired number of children: the impact of motherhood, relationships and employment

Melissa Johnstone, J Lucke, B Hewitt

2020-03-27

To better understand the gap between women’s childbearing aspirations and actual levels of childbearing, this paper investigates t..

Becoming a Female-Breadwinner Household in Australia: Changes in Relationship Satisfaction

Niels Blom, Belinda Hewitt

2019-12-26

Objective: This study longitudinally investigated the associations between becoming a female-breadwinner household and changes in ..

Part-time strategies of women and men of childbearing age in the Netherlands and Australia

Mara Yerkes, Belinda Hewitt

2019-06-26

This book brings together leading international authors from a number of fields to provide an up to date understanding of part-tim..

Does part-time employment status really reduce time pressure?

Judy Rose, Belinda Hewitt

2019-06-01

Part-time employment rates are increasing in Australia, for both women and men. However, gendered patterns in part-time employment..

Contemporary fatherhood: Social, demographic and attitudinal factors associated with involved fathering and long work hours

Laetitia Coles, Belinda Hewitt, Bill Martin

2018-12-01

Time pressures around work and care within families have increased over recent decades, exacerbated by an enduring male breadwinne..

Exploring the Cohabitation Gap in Relationship Dissolution and Health and Wellbeing: A Longitudinal Analysis of Transitions from Cohabitation and Marriage in Switzerland and Australia

B Hewitt, Marieke Voorpostel, Gavin Turrell

2018-06-26

With the increase of unmarried cohabitation a growing body of research examines health differences between married and cohabiting ..

Do active modes of transport cause lower body mass index? Findings from the HABITAT longitudinal study

Gavin Turrell, Belinda A Hewitt, Jerome N Rachele, Billie Giles-Corti, Lucy Busija, Wendy J Brown

2018-04-01

BACKGROUND: Few studies have examined the causal relationship between transport mode and body mass index (BMI). METHODS: We examin..

Frank and Fearless: Supporting Academic Career Progression for Women in an Australian Program

Polly Parker, Belinda Hewitt, Jennifer Witheriff, Amy Cooper

2018-03-01

Prospective trends in body mass index by main transport mode, 2007-2013

Gavin Turrell, Belinda A Hewitt, Jerome N Rachele, Billie Giles-Corti, Wendy J Brown

2018-03-01

Background: Cohort studies have examined whether change in transport mode is associated with change in bodyweight among commuters...

Making and unmaking families

Belinda Hewitt, Michelle Brady

2018-01-01

The Handbook on Gender and Social Policy provides a comprehensive introduction to this field with up-to-date accounts of debates a..

Indigenous children's affective engagement with school: The influence of socio-structural, subjective and relational factors

Laura Dunstan, Belinda Hewitt, Wojtek Tomaszewski

2017-11-01

In this study, Indigenous children’s affective engagement with primary school is examined in terms of feelings of involvement and ..

Editorial for Special Collection on New Relationships from a Comparative Perspective

Anne-Rigt Poortman, Belinda Hewitt

2017-07-05

BACKGROUND This special collection is the result of a collaboration between a group of family scholars from Europe and the United ..

The benefits of paid maternity leave for mothers' post-partum health and wellbeing: Evidence from an Australian evaluation

Belinda Hewitt, Lyndall Strazdins, Bill Martin

2017-06-01

This paper investigates the health effects of the introduction of a near universal paid parental leave (PPL) scheme in Australia, ..

Young Mothers' Experiences of Receiving the Baby Bonus: A Qualitative Study

Cameryn C Garrett, Louise Keogh, Belinda Hewitt, Danielle C Newton, Anne M Kavanagh

2017-01-01

The year 2014 marked the abolition of the Baby Bonus and its replacement with a substantially reduced parenting payment. While oft..

Gender differences in relationship preferences after union dissolution

Anne-Rigt Poortman, Belinda Hewitt

2015-12-01

Women less often remarry or cohabit again after union dissolution than men. To develop our understanding of this gender gap, we lo..

Digital socialization: young people's changing value orientations towards internet use between adolescence and early adulthood

Jonathan Smith, Belinda Hewitt, Zlatko Skrbis

2015-09-02

This study investigates emerging differences among young people in their judgements about the benefits and risks of internet use. ..

The maternal health outcomes of paid maternity leave: A systematic review

Zoe Aitken, Cameryn C Garrett, Belinda Hewitt, Louise Keogh, Jane S Hocking, Anne M Kavanagh

2015-04-01

Paid maternity leave has become a standard benefit in many countries throughout the world. Although maternal health has been centr..

Relationship Dissolution

B HEWITT, J Baxter

2015-01-01

Ann Evans 2.1 Introduction Australians entered the twenty-first century having experienced 50 years of profound change in the nat..