Growing up in New Zealand

Longitudinal study based at the University of Auckland that documents the development of 7,000 New Zealand children from before birth until young adulthood. The children in this study were born within the Auckland, Counties Manukau and Waikato district health board areas in 2009–2010.

Statistics New Zealand – Family

Statistics related to the numbers and types of families in New Zealand, including marriages and civil unions, divorce, and household income and spending.

Strengthening families

Information about a range of services provided by agencies that support New Zealand families/whānau.

Baker, Maureen. Families, labour and love: family diversity in a changing world. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 2001.

May, Helen. Minding children, managing men: conflict and compromise in the lives of postwar pakeha women. Wellington: Bridget Williams Books, 1992.

Pool, Ian. Te iwi Maori: a New Zealand population, past, present and projected. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1991.

Pool, Ian, Arunachalam Dharmalingam and Janet Sceats. The New Zealand family from 1840: a demographic history. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2007.

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

Toynbee, Claire. Her work and his: family, kin and community, 1900–1930. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1995.