A01=Elizabeth Branigan
A01=Jenny Malone
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A01=Suellen Murray
Author_Elizabeth Branigan
Author_Jenny Malone
Author_John Murphy
Author_Suellen Murray
Category=JHBK
Category=NHM
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Product details
- ISBN 9781921410901
- Weight: 278g
- Dimensions: 152 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 01 Feb 2009
- Publisher: UNSW Press
- Publication City/Country: AU
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
