adoption – Frank Golding

A Mother 12 Storeys High with a Letterhead

By fgolding@bigpond.net.auPosted on 6 October 201517 June 2016Posted in Sexual AbuseTagged adoption, Affirm Press, Ballarat, child abuse, child welfare, Children's Homes, Children's Institutions, Family, foster care, Ginger Briggs, Neglected, orphanage, State Wards, Turana, Warrawee1 Comment

Is fact stranger than fiction? Comments on Ginger Briggs, Staunch, Affirm Press, Melbourne, 2012. I was so stirred up by this disturbing book that instead of placing it with my regular short reviews of books (here) I wanted to make a closer examination of this fascinating work. On face value, Staunch is a novel, based on a true story. […]

10 Blunders in Child Welfare

By fgolding@bigpond.net.auPosted on 16 September 201413 October 2014Posted in Orphanage, Child Welfare, Social History, Adoption, State Wards, Children’s Homes, Foster Care, Children’s Institutions, Golding, Sinnett, Neglected, Child Abuse, Family,Tagged absconding, adoption, Arthur Kenny, Auditor-General, Ballarat Orphanage, Betrayal of Trust Report, boarding out, censorship, child labour, childhood records, deserving and undeserving poor, educational opportunity, Forgotten Australians, foster care, gender stereotypes, IQ testing, medical experiments on children, Norgard Inquiry, Ombusdman, poverty, residential care, rights of parents, Royal Commission Child Sexual Abuse, Senate Committee, third party redaction, Tony Abbott, unemployed6 Comments

UPDATE The ten worst blunders in child welfare in Australia since 1788. COUNT DOWN TO NUMBER 1 It has been hard deciding which of all the many mistakes of the past – and those which continue to be made – warrants the title “the worst”. But here it is. BLUNDER # 1: Having inflicted significant damage on children […]