Tag Archives: foster care

Girls Homes and Boys Homes (Or: Pick a Bale of Cotton)

Posted on August 4, 2013 by lewisblayse

The old Children’s Homes will feature prominently in the Royal Commission. This will be because of two factors. Firstly, due to a myriad of factors, the abuse rate was very high. Secondly, there have already been a few enquiries specifically … Continue reading →

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Intrafamilial Abuse and Foster Care (Or: Still Swept Under the Carpet)

Posted on March 9, 2013 by lewisblayse

Image source: http://02varvara.wordpress.com/tag/child-abuse/ Foster care is the new preferred system for children taken from their parents forcibly, when there have been problems for them in their original family. Until about the 1980s, the preferred system had been institutions known as … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Anglicare, Australian Human Rights Commission, children's homes, Dubner and Motta (1999), Forgotten Australians, foster care, foster carers, foster children, George Brouwer, institutional responsibility, institutionalisation, intrafamilial abuse, Lewin Blazevich, Lewis Blayse, Life Without Barriers, Ombudsman, paedophiles, Peter Beattie, Peter Hollingworth, production chain, PTSD, quality control, Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, state wards, Susanne Babbel, Ted Mullighan | Leave a comment

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Girls Homes and Boys Homes (Or: Pick a Bale of Cotton)

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