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Authors S Lanai Scarr ➝ Back to Top

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Authors A USA, songwriter ➝ Violinist, teacher, composer ➝ US, Singer-songwriter ➝ TV Presenter, antiques collector ➝ Australian Rock Singer ➝ Trumpeter, composer, singer, actor ➝ Back to Top

Autobiography/Memoir If Everyone Cared: Autobiography of Margaret Tucker, M.B.E. Margaret Tucker 1983 This is the life story of Margaret Tucker "Lilardia" or Aunty Marg. It describes her family background and stories of life in the Murray-Murrumbidgee area; early childhood at Moonahculla Mission and Cummeragunga; Cootamundra Girls Home; domestic service; importance of religion and singing in Margaret's life; on Aborigines Welfare Board. The book photographs of family members and is dedicated to Margaret's mother, Theresa Clements née Middleton. External Website

Fiction featuring Care Experience Sanctuary Garry Disher 2024 Garry Disher (b. 1949) is an influential Australian crime writer who has won the Ned Kelly Award for Best Novel 3 times. His most recent novel Sanctuary (2024) includes 2 Care Experienced Characters. Grace – who was in an orphanage & foster care - is a hypervigilant, highly skilled thief. She is longing to leave her criminal lifestyle for a settled, ‘regular’ one, but is thwarted. At least Grace has the good grace to save the life of a police officer, to dob in a paeodophile, and to warn the victim of a stalker what her former partner was up to. Adam Garrett was in foster care with Grace. Let down by Grace, he’s now on the hunt for her while doing his PI day job for a dodgy operator. External Website

Radio & Podcast Trans-national adoption and "blending in" The Philosopher's Zone 2022 In 1953, at the end of the Korean War, an adoption program was launched by the South Korean government to care for orphans, most of whom went to white families in the States and in Europe. Since then, an estimated 200,000 South Korean children have been adopted into Western countries. The situation for many of these Korean adoptees is the aradox of feeling like they both belong and yet can't blend in with their adoptive country & culture. External Website

Films/Videos White Oleander (film) 2021 White Oleander is a 2002 American drama film directed by Peter Kosminsky. Fifteen-year-old Astrid Magnussen (Alison Lohman) is living in Los Angeles with her mother, the free-spirited artist Ingrid (Michelle Pfeiffer). Since her father left before she was old enough to remember him, Astrid depends heavily upon her passionate but largely self-centered mother's care. Ingrid's current relationship with a writer named Barry (Billy Connolly) ends when she discovers he is cheating on her with younger women. After she murders him with a poison made from white oleander, Ingrid is arrested and sentenced to life in prison, leaving Astrid under the care of the state of California. Astrid is sent to live with foster mother Starr Thomas (Robin Wright), a former stripper who is a recovering alcoholic and born-again Christian. External Website

Authors W Re-reading Orphanhood ➝ Back to Top

Authors F The Secret Garden ➝ Understood Betsy ➝ Fosterboy ➝ Back to Top

Authors O It's about Healing: Our Story ➝ Childhood Interrupted ➝ Whispering Hope ➝ Hitler's Forgotten Children ➝ That Reminds Me: Winner of the Desmond Elliott Prize 2020 ➝ Left unsaid: a triumph of sibling love over parental neglect & institutional care ➝ The Other Side of Absence ➝ The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream ➝ I Beat the Odds: From Homelessness, to The Blind Side, and Beyond ➝ Someone to Love Us ➝ Rememberings ➝ A Place called Hope ➝ Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance ➝ You Don’t Know How Lucky You Are ➝ Back to Top

Radio & Podcast BBC Radio 4 - Books and Authors, Joyce Carol Oates, Wind in the Willows and Orphans in literature Joyce Carol Oates This program includes a discussion about orphans in literature. External Website

Authors G Sean Geoghegan ➝ Back to Top

Autobiography/Memoir Inside Out: An Autobiography Robert Adamson 2004 Inside Out is a story about survival and taking risks, about seizing the moment and living with the consequences, about the adventure of being alive. IRobert Adamson tells the story of his childhood and early adulthood in fifties and sixties Australia/ He then spends much of his adolescence in and out of boys' homes and later prisons. In between stints inside he works as a pastrycook and becomes besotted with the sultry, dark-haired Carol. Together they take off on a wild road trip to Queensland - a journey that could only ever have one ending. But prison has its own destiny for young Robert. It introduces this sensitive, responsive young man to the debating society, to books, and to a love affair with words. It sets alight Adamson's imagination and fosters his dream of becoming a writer. External Website

Films/Videos Identity Thief 2013 The film tells the fictional story of Sandy Patterson (Jason Bateman) whose identity is stolen by an unnamed woman (Melissa McCarthy). In Denver, Sandy Patterson buys identity theft protection from Diana, a con artist, over the phone and reveals all of his personal information. At work, after Sandy clashes with his obnoxious boss, Harold Cornish, he receives a phone call that reminds him he has an appointment at a salon in Florida. Confused, he puts it out of his mind when co-worker Daniel Casey suggests they and several others start their own firm; Sandy agrees to join them. When paying for gas, Sandy's card is declined, and the clerk cuts it up. As the credit card company tells him that he has spent much money in Florida, he is arrested for missing a court date there. At the police station, Detective Reilly determines Diana has stolen Sandy's identity. The situation worsens when cops ask Daniel, now his boss, about Sandy's possession of drugs. Reilly says Sandy's name was used to buy drugs from someone named Paolo. When the cops say they can do nothing unless the identity thief is in Denver, Sandy offers to retrieve her and convince her to clear his name despite his wife's concerns. He finds her at the same time crooks are also after her and break into her house. They escape and after traveling through several states, and having various escapades and the criminals continue their pursuit of Sandy and Diana. The pair con an accounts processor and steal Sandy's old boss - Cornish's identity to create new credit cards. In St. Louis, the two share dinner, and Diana admits she does not know her real name. As a baby, she was dumped outside a police station and spent her childhood in foster care, fending for herself from a young age. External Website

Authors L Edmonia Lewis ➝ Back to Top

Blogs/Web Pages/Articles Interview with Jilly Cooper 2006 One of the main characters in Wicked is Paris Alvaston who is in care. This interview sheds some interesting light on Cooper's motivation for creating this character. At Bagley Hall, a chaotic yet elite school, headmaster Hengist Brett-Taylor schemes to merge with failing Larkminster Comprehensive. Financial motives clash with forbidden attraction, wary parents, rebellious staff, and students ready for mayhem. External Website

Academic Articles Fostered Voices: Narratives of US Foster Care Nikky Greer 2019 Fostered Voices: Narratives of US Foster Care is a PhD thesis by Nikky R Greer submitted to the Temple University Graduate Board in December 2019. In her study, Nikky Greer has used an anthropological approach to examining the foster care system, including interviews with those involved. She argues that saying the foster care system is “broken” assumes that the system is there to “help and support families and children.” Instead, she shows that what the system is all about is, its “most basic function is to shape, control and reform its subjects into compliant neoliberal citizens”. External Website

Authors C Christian Bale unveils plans to build 12 foster homes in California ➝ ‘I lived in a state of terror’: Patricia Cornwell on childhood trauma, her new novel and the search for Bigfoot ➝ Jenni Fagan’s ‘visceral’ memoir of growing up in care wins Gordon Burn prize ➝ After I was taken off my birth parents, my foster carers became the family I needed ➝ The Gap of Time by Jeanette Winterson review – an elegant retelling of Shakespeare ➝ Almost 70 mass unmarked child graves discovered by ITV News investigation into mother and baby homes ➝ Adoption support charity shreds 'irreplaceable' files to save space ➝ Back to Top

Performing Arts British Singer Mo Jamil Mo Jamil Adeniran (born 25 September 1995) is an British singer. He was born in Nigeria but grew up in Warrington, Cheshire. He was adopted as a three-year-old, but because his adoptive mother was abusive, he was removed from her at the age of eight and went into foster care. Mo Jamil rose to fame after winning the sixth series of The Voice UK, where he won a recording contract with Polydor Records. His debut album, titled Evolve, charted at number 36 on the UK Album Charts. External Website

Fiction featuring Care Experience Small Things Like These Claire Keegan 2021 In her novella, Small Things Like These (2021), Claire Keegan tells something about the now infamous Magdalene Laundries. Set in 1985 in a small Irish town, local coal merchant, Bill Furlong, is busy organising deliveries in the period leading up to Christmas. Bill Furlong doesn’t want to believe the negative stories he’s heard about the local Laundry. But one day he delivers coal there and is confronted by the scene of unkempt girls and young women scrubbing a floor. One asks for help: she wants Furlong to take her to the river so she can drown herself. Also confronting Furlong is the knowledge that his mother could have been one of those girls, yet she was kept in employment by Mrs Wilson after her baby was born, and 12 year old Bill Furlong stayed on with Mrs Wilson when his mother died. Small Things Like These won the Orwell Prize in 2021 and was shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize. External Website