Acknowledgments; Introduction; The first day; Desperate circumstances; Having a story to tell; Living in houses, not homes; 'If it wasn't for my boys'; Making a living; Returning 'home'; Conclusion; Appendix 1: Research process and research partnership; Appendix 2: Advocacy and support services; Appendix 3: Biographies of the research participants; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary
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
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-215) and index
