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Boys' Brigade poster 1955

Classics: Hairy Maclary

Alex

1840–1948: British subjects

20th-century arrivals

20th-century intermarriage

A Chinese family

A cycling adventure, around 1960

A divided region

A model welfare state, 1946–1969

A new world, 1970 onwards

Abuse and discipline

Adoption

Adoption and single mothers – 1960s and 1970s

Ancestors

Anglican Church

Ans Westra's photography practice

Anti-nuclear protest

Areas of discrimination

At the Bryant children's home

Baby boom begins: 1945–1959

Baby bust families: mid-1970s to 1990s

Backyard gardens

Baker, Louisa Alice

Beach culture

Beach recreation

Beyond the demographic transition, 1970–21st century

Birth rates

Blended families

Brainwave Trust

Butler, Muriel Dorothy

Care and carers

Care of people with disabilities

Caring for family

Cars and society

Cars and the motor industry

Celebrated authors: Joy Cowley

Changing attitudes to family violence, 1893 to 1985

Changing families

Changing family sizes

Child abuse

Child and youth health

Child discipline and justice

Child health organisations

Child Poverty Action Group

Childhood

Childless by choice

Childless women by year of birth, 1890–1965

Children and divorce

Children and sport

Children and teenagers

Children and young people

Children milking cows

Children playing in Masterton Park

Children with a skipping rope, around 1940

Children's health camp

Children’s clothes

Children’s homes and fostering

Children’s play

Children’s playground

Children’s rights and well-being

Christchurch boys fishing

Church institutions and charitable aid

City, suburbs and recreation

Classics: The house that Jack built

Cleaning rags, Mataura mill

Clothes

Coffee morning poster, 2000

Colonial beginnings: 1840s–1880s

Colonial families: 1840–1879

Common threads in creation stories

Community responses to child abuse

Confectioner’s, 1909

Contemporary lesbian life

Contraception and sterilisation

Controlling the flow of refugees

Controversial murder trials, 1840–1939

Cot death, obesity and other child-health issues

Country schooling

Cricket in the domain

Death rates and life expectancy

Debating state responsibility, 1970s

Defining childhood

Defining family violence

Defining teenagers as a group

Dental care

Dental nurses to dental therapists

Different family practices

Different kinds of parents

Dirty children

Disability advocacy

Disability and disability organisations

Diverse families

Diversity and conflict

Divorce and separation

Domestic and family competitions

Dorothy Butler

Early childhood education and care

Early education and care, late 19th to mid-20th centuries

Early history

Early sport, 1860 to 1919

Effects of colonisation on Māori

Egg test

European influence on Māori childhoods

Experiences of institutional and foster care

Explaining infertility and childlessness

Extended family and sole-parent households

Families with lesbian or gay parents

Families, wars and economic hardship: 1914–1944

Family application for assisted migration

Family autonomy and state policy

Family haymaking

Family policy, 1980–1999

Family violence

Family welfare in the 21st century

Family, school and work responsibilities

Farm families

Farm holiday

Farmer dad and son

Feeding the calves

Ferguson and Osborn bookstore, Lambton Quay

Foster care and family homes

Friendship, sport and youth groups

From secrecy to openness

Gardens

Getting an education: 1800s

Girls' Life Brigade health stamp, 1958

Glaxo ‘builds bonnie babies’

Government institutions

Government support, 1940s to 1970s

Greater diversity, 1970 to 2010s

Growth in adoption

Growth of children’s sport, 1920 to 1969

Health advocacy and self-help

Health status of children and young people

Healthy bodies

Heart Children

Hi-5 at the mall

High-profile cases

History of immigration

History of pets in New Zealand

Housework and caregiving

Ice cream treat, 1944

Identity and ethos

IHC journal cover

Infectious diseases and immunisation

Infertility and childlessness

Influences on parenting

Inheritance

Inner-city living

Inner-city people

Inter-country adoption

Intermarriage

International comparisons

Jumble sale, Stratford

Kahungunu the man

Karakia

Karitāne Hospital, 1943

Keeping cool

Khandallah children

Kids skipping

King, Frederic Truby

Late 19th and early 20th century families

Law and policing changes from the 1980s

Lawson quintuplets

Lesbian lives

Lolly scramble

Maintenance and the division of property

Māori and colonial adoption

Māori childhood changes

Māori children playing, 1964

Māori children’s upbringing

Māori creation traditions

Margaret Mahy, storyteller

Marriage, separation and sole parenting

Marti Friedlander with portraits of Michal and Nina, 1964

Mary Muller and her grandson

Middle age and midlife

Midlife adults

Minnie Dean

Mothers and children – 1800s to 1917

Mothers, fathers and parenting

Municipal playgrounds

New developments, 1970s to 2000s

Ngā tamariki

Ngāti Maniapoto

Ngāti Raukawa

No place for kids

Older mothers

Organisations for people with disabilities

Other support and advocacy organisations

Pacific Island health

Paid employment

Pākehā age structure and dependency

Papatūānuku – the earth mother

Papatūānuku – the land

Parenting

Parenting advice and organisations

Parenting in tradition and history

Parenting practices

Patterns of disability

Pets

Physical games

Play and recreation

Playing at marriage

Plunket Line cuts

Poles

Polish child migrants, 1944

Ponsonby, 1971

Population change

Post-war baby boomers

Primary health initiatives

Prince meets Superman

Prisoner support and advocacy

Promoting road safety

Public health

Rates of child abuse

Refugees

Regulating inheritance

Regulation, information and support

Residential homes for children and young people, 21st century

Responses to infertility

Rhyming trades alphabet

Rhythms of daily life

Riding Sammy the seal

Risk factors and health service delivery

Risks to personal safety

Road accidents

Rural workers

Scarlet fever hospital, 1903

Schoolhouse

Scouts and Guides

Security and personal safety

Sexual Wellbeing Aotearoa

Sexualities

Sexualities – then and now

Sexuality

Shows and field days

Sickness at sea

Social services

Social workers

Society

Socio-economic status, ethnicity and health

Son milking

State action on child abuse

Street play

Suburban life

Taupori Māori – Māori population change

Te whānau tamariki – pregnancy and birth

Te Whānau-ā-Apanui

Teaching blind children

Teenagers and youth

The ancestor Maniapoto

The colonial family and the household economy

The custom of whāngai

The family farmer

The Kiwi dream

The rise of the family farm, 1880–1970

The voyage out

Towards equal opportunities: 1935–1980s

Toys – from homemade to mass market

Traditional Māori and settler children’s play

Traditional Māori childhoods

Traditional Māori religion – ngā karakia a te Māori

Treatment of young offenders, 1840 to 1980s

Trends in violent crime

Tribal organisation

Trip to town

Trolley racing

Understanding child abuse

Walking bus

War and suburbia

Watching movies

Welfare, work and families, 1918–1945

Whānau

Whānau and whāngai

Whāngai – customary fostering and adoption

Whāngai and the law

Wider options: 1900s–1930s

Women and men

Women's Refuge services, 2013–2023

Women’s movement

Years of reform: 1989 onwards

Young and old workers

Youth justice in the 1990s and 21st century

Youth offenders

Youth organisations