Tag Archives: state wards

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 | Comments Off

The Salvation Army (Or: The War on Kids)

Posted on March 4, 2013 by lewisblayse

[Disclosure: The author was an inmate of the Salvation Army Home for Boys at Indooroopilly, Brisbane from 1958 to 1960 and appeared, in 2004, in the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s TV programme, “The Homies” on Four Corners, which detailed abuses in … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Barry William Johnston, Bayswater Children’s Home, Brisbane), Catholic Church, Charles Alan Smith, children's homes, Eden Park Boys’ Home, Forgotten Australians, Four Corners, General Shaw Clifton, John Bayer, Lewin Blazevich, Lewis Blayse, paedophiles, Perversion Files, power distance, Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Russian government, Salvation Army, Salvation Army Home for Boys (Indooroopilly, state wards, terms of reference, Victorian Parliamentary enquiry, William Ferris, William John Keith Ellis | Comments Off

A First Look at Children’s Homes (Or: Paedophile Heaven)

Posted on February 24, 2013 by lewisblayse

Children who were not orphans were often taken into State “care” because of a difficult home situation of one kind or another. The State out-sourced its responsibility to the churches in most cases. The churches ran the “Homes” as profit-making … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged children's homes, Forde Enquiry, Forgotten Australians, Kevin Rudd, Lewin Blazevich, Lewis Blayse, Malcolm Turnbull, paedophiles, power distance, Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, state governments, state wards | Comments Off

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

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