Frank Golding

Author, Researcher, Historian

Month: March 2015

Sexual Abuse in Residential ‘Care’: Who’s Responsible?

By fgolding@bigpond.net.auPosted on Posted in Orphanage, Child Welfare, Social History, Adoption, State Wards, Children’s Homes, Foster Care, Children’s Institutions, Golding, Sinnett, Neglected, Child Abuse, Family,, Sexual Abuse, UncategorizedTagged 2 Comments on Sexual Abuse in Residential ‘Care’: Who’s Responsible?

‘Children the main perpetrators of sex abuse in out-of-home care, royal commission told’ That’s the headline in the Sydney Morning  Herald (10 March 2015, here); but what’s the substance of the story? According to the story: ‘The vast majority of child sexual abuse occurring in Australian foster homes and residential care facilities is perpetrated by […]

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Historic Child Abuse Not Consigned to History’s Garbage Bins

By fgolding@bigpond.net.auPosted on Posted in Sexual Abuse, UncategorizedTagged ,

Child Sexual Abuse has not been consigned to the garbage bins of history. In an opinion piece in a Sydney paper today, Claire Harvey rightly takes umbrage at a statement made to the Royal Commission into Child Sexual Abuse last week by the former Principal of the prestigious Knox Grammar School in Sydney where sexual abuse was […]

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