
After the Orphanage
Memory, Identity and Personal History in Post-war Australia
UNSW Press
Will be published approx. on 1. February 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
978-1-921410-90-1 (ISBN)
Description
While there is much literature on the experience of growing up in an orphanage, very few books examine life after institutional care. After the Orphanage is the first book to address how care-leavers adjust to life in the outside world. Using interviews with people who grew up in orphanages and group homes in Victoria between 1945 and 1983, the book explores how institutionalisation affected future education, employment opportunities, relationships and health, and the implications this might have for policy and practice in the out-of-home care of children.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Sydney
Australia
Illustrations
illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 233 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
278 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-921410-90-1 (9781921410901)
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