Single Mothers and Their Children: Disposal, Punishment and Survival in Australia by Renate Howe, Shurlee Swain

Single Mothers and Their Children: Disposal, Punishment and Survival in Australia

Studies in Australian History

Renate Howe, Shurlee Swain

288 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history
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This is a powerful and moving history of single motherhood in Australia. It tells the story of these women and their children and the lives they constructed. The book covers the period from the 1850s, when abandonment and infanticide were not unco...

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