hope not too much annoying but if I seem ungrateful I'm sorry. think emotional baggage from unkind institutional responsibility decisions have given families like ours a disproportionate disadvantage to function like average families,, like our peers in school, workplace and neighbourhood. oh and I compare my extended family relatives who come down the line which didn't take the fallout of British Child emigration policy's most extreme adverse outcomes.
Understand most prefer to reject this as you describe "dark period of Australian history" . I don't know of other British policy that had such a vast effect on our country and the security of its average population. This no doubt changes the path of history. Did the decision makers including uk and Australian government and its local governments (including the law courts who rubber stamped the legal transfer of child ownership from the families to the state, who paid subcontractors eg Fairbridge child emigration society, one of fifty of these bodies responsible for hundreds of thousands of insecure vulnerable due to sudden death of a parent etc, children being "stolen " for good, by betraying families to feel it was a beneficial sacrifice to build up with their children's loves the British Empire.
Welcome constructive feedback on some conclusions from my family's unusual treatment
two generations, mum's and mine
born to extraordinary disadvantage I have found out about only when I was thirty years old. trying to make a better life dad disclosed the child abuse mum received. She sat next to him in front of car but didn't add anything as I recall. over the final 15 years mum told me things but I considered my asking questions likely unwelcome due to obvious impact of Fairbridge on her.after she died I received the Fairbridge file.on Grandad. it is valuable telling history.
