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23-03-23, 18:15
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I know of a family who had over 20 children, they had one child in every school year from Infant through to the last senior year in my school as well as some already working and some under school age. The social services persuaded the parents to let 5 of the school age children go to Australia. One of the boys came onto our school site and it was good to know how life had treated them all. He said he had a fantastic life and said in the Farm Home they were sent to at least people knew his name and didn't have to look at his hand to see who he was, he'd lost a finger in an accident when very young and he said his mother couldn't remember who was who from the boys. When he finished his schooling at the Farm Home he got work on a farm and ended up married to the farmer's daughter. He lives in orange, NSW.
One of his sisters said it was dreadful there and they were made to work hard spending most days cooking, cleaning and working in the Home laundry and had little education. None of the 5 came back to the UK for good but visited and paid for their parents to visit them.
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#13
23-03-23, 19:10
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DL, it really was just chance though, whether things were better or not and that is what makes me angry.
A Cornish farmer in a very remote area took on seven brothers from Liverpool. They were completely feral and the authorities were in despair. They had exhausted The care system, simply setting fire to anything they didn't like. The farm was somewhat ramshackle, to be polite and standards were very low. Against all the odds those boys thrived, learned to farm and look after animals - they did not know animals had to be cared for. They all grew up to be useful and productive and the farmer left the farm to one who stayed with him to the end. But again, sheer chance that it worked out for them, it could have gone very badly wrong for all concerned. OC
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