by Dorothy Williams | Feb 15, 2019 | Abbotsford, Adoption, Depression, Economic Problems, Family History, Melbourne, Memoir
“In a strange land most persons are strangers to each other (and) wherever large assemblies of people settle, there will be orphans,” wrote John Pascoe Fawkner in his own Port Phillip Patriot 5/5/1846. The category of orphans also covered foundlings, neglected or...
by Dorothy Williams | Feb 15, 2019 | Adoption, Memoir
Researching my grandmother’s life gave me new perspectives on child care, and how our sense of identity and concept of ‘self’ is formed or malformed by changing social culture. A child of the Gold Rush, her immediate family was her only security in a chaotic frontier...
by Dorothy Williams | Feb 15, 2019 | Adoption, Memoir
My own experience? For seven decades adoption has been a part of my life. As a teenage office girl it was my job to greet incoming single mothers coming to relinquish their babies, and provide cups of tea for those who broke down as they handed them over to my boss. I...
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