Investigators: Francis Mitrou, Kirsten Hancock, Stephen Zubrick
Families are a critical pathway in the transmission of disadvantage. While the literature broadly focusses on parent-child transfers in understanding intergenerational disadvantage, further insight can be achieved by examining markers of disadvantage across multiple generations of the same family. Studies examining multigenerational patterns of disadvantage are therefore valuable, but the availability of Australian data to investigate these patterns has been limited. With new data now available, this study aims to examine the experience of multiple disadvantages in two generations of Australian families, and how these experiences relate to the trajectories of children, the third generation.