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Orphans of the living : growing up in care in twentieth-century Australia / Joanna Penglase
Record no:
64151
Call no:
362.73 PEN
Author:
Penglase, Joanna
Publisher:
Fremantle, W.A.: Curtin University Books
Year:
2005
Description:
384 p. : ill., ports. ; 21 cm.
Subject:
Children - Institutional care - Australia - History
;
Child welfare - Australia - History
;
Child abuse - Western Australia
;
Orphanages - Western Australia - History
;
Isbn:
1920731814
Type:
Book
Abstract:
In Australia, around half a million children grew up in 'care' during the twentieth century. This book looks at the profound personal costs to these children, and the huge social and economic costs of these past policies.
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