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Inside: Life in Children's Homes and Institutions blog
Author
Durant (nee Green), Carmel
Secondary Author
National Museum of Australia
Publication Date
5 March 2010
Publisher
National Museum of Australia
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Description
A personal account of Bidura Children's Home in the 1930s and of the experience of foster care. The author's family members were impoverished by the Depression and illness and later died. The siblings' experiences of foster care were bewildering and harsh.