The Slow Evolution of Foster Care in Australia Just Like a Family? /

• Main Authors: Musgrove, Nell (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Michell, Deidre (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood
• Subjects: Islands of the Pacific-History.; Social history.; History, Modern.; World history.; Social policy.; Australasian History.; Social History.; Modern History.; World History, Global and Transnational History.; Children, Youth and Family Policy.

This book draws on archival, oral history and public policy sources to tell a history of foster care in Australia from the nineteenth century to the present day. It is, primarily, a social history which places the voices of people directly touched by foster care at the centre of the story, but also...