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Autobiography/Memoir

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Stumbling Forwards - Understand Backwards

Rob Watts

2015

Rob Watts is an Australian sociologist. In this chapter he talks about his experience finding out he was adopted as an adult, and that until he was adopted, he was in foster care with his adoptive parents.

Children and young people in social care, and those who have left, are often subject to stigmatisation and discrimination. Being stigmatised and discriminated against can impact negatively on mental health and wellbeing not only during the care experience but often for many years after too. The project aims to contribute towards changing community attitudes towards care experienced people as a group. See glossary HERE


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