Joanna Penglase's book about growing up in 'care' in New South Wales is titled Orphans of the living, and she points out that
'all children who are removed from parents - by whatever means and for whatever reasons - suffer the same feelings of grief and loss; they suffer as all children do who lose their parents.'
Welfare workers in Victoria in the mid-twentieth century used the term 'orphans of the living' to differentiate between 'real orphans' and the circumstances of other children in care.
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13 February 2018
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