Story: Parenting

More links and websites

• Great Fathers

  A parenting website for fathers.

• Growing Up in New Zealand

  A longitudinal study of children born in the Auckland/Waikato region in 2009/10.

• Kiwi families

  A parenting website that provides advice on parenting and discussion forums for parents.

• Men’s participation in unpaid care: a review of the literature

  A 2009 report by Lindy Fursman and Paul Callister for the Department of Labour and the Ministry of Women’s Affairs (PDF 802 KB).

• New issues in legal parenthood

  A 2005 Law Commission report on the law around parenthood (PDF 1.22 MB).

• Parenting Place

  A parenting organisation operating throughout New Zealand.

• Parents Centre

  Parents Centres provide education and support for parents before and after childbirth.

• Playcentre

  The website of the New Zealand Playcentre Federation

• Plunket

  A not-for-profit organisation that provides support and advice for young children and their families.

• Raising Children Supporting Parents

  Raising Children Media Ltd supports parents by providing videos on a range of subjects.

More suggestions and sources

• Baker, Maureen. Families, labour and love. Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 2001.

• Chan, Angel. 'Transnational parenting practices of Chinese immigrant families in New Zealand.' Contemporary issues in early childhood (2017): 1-12 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1463949117691204.

• Dharmalingam, Arunachalam, and others. Patterns of family formation and change in New Zealand. Wellington: Ministry of Social Development, 2004.

• Gibbs, A. and R. Scherman. 'Pathways to parenting in New Zealand: issues in law, policy and practice.' Kotuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online Volume 8, nos 1-2 (2013): 13-26 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1177083x.2013.821077.

• The Kiwi nest: 60 years of change in New Zealand families. Wellington: Families Commission, 2008.

• Patterson, Lesley and Katherine Forbes. 'Doing Gender in the Imagined Futures of Young New Zealanders.' Young Volume 20, no. 2 (2012): 119-136.

• Pryor, J. and B. Rodgers. Children in changing families: life after parental separation. Oxford: Blackwell, 2001.