Cultural historian Clair Wills reflects on the secret cousin born in Bessborough Mother and Baby Home, which at one point had a morality rate of 75% – and her family’s complicity in a national tragedy.
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On the wall of an orphanage in Venice, a musicologist encountered a fresco featuring an aria written for an opera. She’s since embarked on a project to bring this forgotten music back.
The success of the Ugandan dance troupe offers a chance to discuss the harms of institutional care.
Rather than protecting some of the world’s most vulnerable children, many of Africa’s orphanages are exploiting them.
The diversity of families is one of the important underlying themes of the South African Child Gauge 2018.
Good intentions, money and the desire to help are essential ingredients for the orphanage tourism industry. But tourists end up becoming agents in the exploitation of children.
Children raised in orphanages often lack a key ingredient for healthy development – love.
Governments in West Africa and international aid agencies should help facilitate adoptions locally and provide better health care and education to support entire communities.
Following the earthquake in 2010, people flocked to Haiti to “rescue” orphaned and lost children. The problem that has since emerged is that many of the “orphans” placed in orphanages and sent for adoption, were not orphaned at all.
The number of orphanages in developing nations has dramatically increased in the past decade, but where are the “orphans” coming from?
Australian private schools are increasingly taking their senior students to volunteer in orphanages, but they’re doing more harm than good.
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Lecturer in Law, Griffith University
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Professor of Sustainable Tourism and Heritage, Western Sydney University
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Associate Lecturer, RMIT School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University
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Distinguished Professor of Musicology and Art History, Penn State
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