In Australia, around 500,000 Children Grew up in the ‘care’ of institutional homes, in the 20 years after the Second World War. More often then not, these children grew up with daily cruel emotional and physical abuse in the barren environment of an institution. Australian institutions ultimately treated our most helpless children as common criminals, […]

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