After the Orphanage: Life Beyond the Children's Home by Suellen Murray et al

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges.

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 outside the system.

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. (publisher blurb)