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Author Musgrove, Nell, author

Title The scars remain : a long history of Forgotten Australians and children's institutions / Nell Musgrove
Published North Melbourne, Vic. : Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2013
©2013

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Description xx, 199 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of illustrations : illustrations, portraits, photographs ; 21 cm
regular print
Contents Introduction. Unfinished business -- Founding the nation's homes -- Two early colonial models of welfare : New South Wales and Tasmania -- Colonial orphanages -- Questions of religion and the state -- Reforming child welfare -- Aboriginal children in "care" -- From institutions to boarding out -- Child rescue and its legacies -- The decline and return of institutions -- The myth of the unwanted child -- Seeking admission of children to "care" -- Assessing families' requests -- "Hoping that I can see you all someday - I remain your loving daughter" -- Why were children sent to institutions? -- Poverty and family crisis -- Identifying vulnerable children and "dangerous" families -- The dynamics of child welfare -- Institutional life : children's experiences -- Nineteenth and twentieth century experiments in institutional "care" -- Life inside children's institutions -- Controlling children's minds and bodies -- Punishment and abuse -- Institutional staff -- The value of a child -- Building "hard workers" and "solid citizens" -- Sending children out to work -- Life for children "in service" -- Conclusion. The impetus for change
Summary "The Scars Remain presents the long history of placing Australian children in institutions, putting a human face on child welfare systems which have, over the course of more than two hundred years, touched the lives of hundreds of thousands of children as well as their families and friends." BACK COVER
Analysis Australian
Child abuse
Child welfare
Children
History
Orphans
Residential care
Victoria
Notes Includes bibliographical references and index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-196) and index
Subject Child abuse -- Australia -- History.
Child care -- Australia -- History.
Child welfare -- Australia -- History.
Child welfare -- Australia.
Child care -- Australia.
Children -- Institutional care -- Australia.
Children -- Institutional care -- Australia -- Victoria -- History.
Children -- Institutional care -- Australia -- History.
Children -- Institutional care -- Australia -- Victoria.
Children -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Australia -- History.
Children -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Australia -- Victoria.
Children -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Australia.
Institutional care -- Australia -- History.
Children -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Victoria x History
Children, Aboriginal Australian -- Institutional care.
Orphanages -- Australia -- History.
Orphanages -- Australia.
Orphanages -- Australia -- Victoria.
Orphanages -- Australia -- Victoria -- History.
Stolen generations (Australia)
a Children -- Legal status, laws, etc -- Victoria
SUBJECT Australia -- Social life and customs http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114315 -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024
LC no. 2013487199
ISBN 9781925003024 (paperback)
Other Titles Long history of Forgotten Australians and children's institutions