Orphans of the living: growing up in care in twentieth-century Australia

In Australia, around half a million children grew up in 'care' during the twentieth century. Most often, they grew up with daily brutal physical and emotional abuse in the sterile environment of an institution. The author, herself place in 'care' when only eight months old, begins to unravel the seemingly inexplicable - how and why this could have happened? She looks at the profound personal costs to these children, and the huge social and economic costs of these past policies...