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Single Mothers and their Children - Disposal, Punishment and Survival in Australia (Hardcover, Revised)
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Single Mothers and their Children - Disposal, Punishment and Survival in Australia (Hardcover, Revised)
Series: Studies in Australian History
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In Australia until the early 1970s, women were assumed to have
husbands who were breadwinners and expected to be housewives and to
raise children themselves. If a woman had children but no male
provider, she was likely to be economically deprived. If she had
never been married she would be stigmatised by society as well.
This book, the first comprehensive history of the treatment of
single mothers and their children in Australia, is the story of
these women and their children and the lives they constructed.
Starting in the 1850s when abandonment and infanticide were not
uncommon, the book's main focus ends in 1975 when the legal status
of illegitimacy was abolished. While the book traces profound
changes from a time when single mothers were locked in gaol for
discarding their babies to the point when their situation was
recognised in the form of state benefits, the authors find a good
deal of continuity over the period. The book covers issues of baby
farming, infanticide, abortion, sex education, birth control,
adoption and marriage, in effect becoming a history of sexual
practice in Australia. It uses a broad range of published and oral
sources, drawn from interviews, diaries, court records and the
problem pages of women's magazines. Shurlee Swain and Renate Howe
tell a powerful if painful and often moving story of women who were
forced to dispose of their babies and punished for sexual
transgression. They also show the ways in which these women, and
their illegitimate children, survived. This long-awaited book makes
an important contribution to social, welfare and women's history in
Australia. It will also resonate with many who have experienced
single motherhood directly orindirectly.
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