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Academic Articles

The American West and the Archetypel Orpan

Louie Attebery

Care leavers in the ivory tower

Kirsty Capes

Popular perceptions of disrupted childhoods

Kirsty Capes

Investigating ‘care leaver’ identity: A narrative analysis of personal experience stories

Craig Evans

Living with the past: the creation of the stolen generation positionality

Stephanie Gilbert

As a former foster kid, I'm giving Tracy Beaker a second chance

Sophia Alexandra Hall

From Folktales to Fiction: Orphan Characters in Children’s Literature

Melanie A. Kimball

Conceptualizing Stigma

Bruce G Link et al.

Blood Doesn't Define Evotypical Families: Eleanor Spence's Stories of Informal and Formal Foster Care in Australia

Dee Michell

Out of sight: the censoring of family diversity in picture books

Sarah Mokrycki

Children Without Childhood: The Emotionality of Orphaned Children and Images of Their Rescuers in Selected Works of English and Canadian Literature

Irena Avsenik Nabergoj

The Mem Sahib, the Worthy, the Rajah and His Minions: Some Reflections on the Class Politics of The Secret Garden

Jerry Phillips

"Let's Go to the Movies": Filmic Representations of Gay Foster and Adoptive Parents

Damien Riggs

‘Yes I’ve got some historic convictions but do the public really need protecting from me?’

The Record

Lost Boys and Recovered Classics: Literary and Social Memory in Lorenzo Carcaterra's Sleepers (1995)

Christopher Wilson

Incarnations of the Orphan

Nina Auerbach

Interrogating ‘poor outcomes’ and disrupted care in children’s fiction

Kirsty Capes

Winnie Woodfern Comes Out in Print: Story-Paper Authorship and Protolesbian Self-Representation in Antebellum America

Daniel Cohen

Reconsidering the care-crime connection in a climate of crisis

Claire Fitzpatrick

Reflexivity and Lived Experience of Out-of-Home Care: Positionality as an Early Parenthood Researcher

Amy Gill

A perspective from the periphery: Re-imagining regional North Queensland women's stories using historical fiction

Louise Henry

Healthy Depictions? Depicting Adoption and Adoption News Events on Broadcast News

Kline, Susan L.; Chatterjee, Karishma; Karel, Amanda I.

Fremantle: Reflections of a child migrant

Michael McCarthy

Two Mothers - Twice the blessing or was I cursed?

Deidre Michell

What Makes a Family? The Radical Portrayal of Diverse Families in Australian Picture Books

Sarah Mokrzycki

The politics of good intentions and what I’ve learned from Romania’s ‘orphans’

Mariela Neagu

A Fragment of the Maltese Exodus: Child Migration to Australia 1953-1965

David Plowman

Christian Science Versus the Rest Cure in Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden

Anne Stiles

Integrating personal and professional experiences: Seven phases to integrating loss and grief.

Rosemary Wanganeen

"One of Us": Orphaned Selves and Legitimacy in Australian Autobiography

Jack Bowers

(Pseudo)motherhood, care constructs and the geography of the nuclear family: class, gender and the suburbs in contemporary fiction

Kirsty Capes

Rewriting the Past: Gerard Mannix Flynn's Nothing to Say and James X

Victoria Connor

Foster Focus Mag

Foster Focus Mag

What "The Mandalorian" Teaches Us About Foster Care

Sophia Alexandra Hall

Louis Armstrong’s “Karnofsky Document”: The Reaffirmation of Social Death and the Afterlife of Emotional Labor

Dalton Jones

Contemplating Fictional and Nonfictional Orphan Stories (2004)

Dennis Leoutsakas

From Hagiography to Personal Pain: Stories of Australian foster care from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century

Dee Michell

Exploring the legal representation of individuals in foster care: What say youth and alumni?

J Jay Miller et al.

Surviving the "House of a Hundred Windows": Irish Industrial Schools in Recent Fiction and Memoirs

Michael Molino

Otherways' into the Garden: Re-Visioning the Feminine in The Secret Garden

Linda Parsons

Children out of place' : representations of foster care in the Australian news media

Damien King Riggs

The Role of Orphan Films in the 21st Century Archive

Dan Streible

Oliver Twisted: the origins of Lord Voldemort in the Dickensian orphan.

James Washick

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