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Academic Articles

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The American West and the Archetypel Orpan

Louie Attebery

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Care leavers in the ivory tower

Kirsty Capes

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

Kirsty Capes

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

Craig Evans

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

Stephanie Gilbert

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

Louise Henry

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

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

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Fremantle: Reflections of a child migrant

Michael McCarthy

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Two Mothers - Twice the blessing or was I cursed?

Deidre Michell

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

Sarah Mokrzycki

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

Mariela Neagu

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

David Plowman

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

Anne Stiles

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

Rosemary Wanganeen

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Incarnations of the Orphan

Nina Auerbach

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

Kirsty Capes

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

Daniel Cohen

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Reconsidering the care-crime connection in a climate of crisis

Claire Fitzpatrick

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What "The Mandalorian" Teaches Us About Foster Care

Sophia Alexandra Hall

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

Dalton Jones

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Contemplating Fictional and Nonfictional Orphan Stories (2004)

Dennis Leoutsakas

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

Dee Michell

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

J Jay Miller et al.

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

Michael Molino

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

Linda Parsons

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

Damien King Riggs

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The Role of Orphan Films in the 21st Century Archive

Dan Streible

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

James Washick

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

Jack Bowers

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Popular perceptions of disrupted childhoods

Kirsty Capes

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

Victoria Connor

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Foster Focus Mag

Foster Focus Mag

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

Sophia Alexandra Hall

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

Melanie A. Kimball

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Conceptualizing Stigma

Bruce G Link et al.

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

Dee Michell

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

Sarah Mokrycki

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

Irena Avsenik Nabergoj

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

Jerry Phillips

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

Damien Riggs

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

The Record

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

Christopher Wilson

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