Empty Cradles (Now called 'Oranges and Sunshine')

Empty Cradles (Now called 'Oranges and Sunshine') by Margaret Humphreys


ISBN
9780552141642
Published
Released
01 / 04 / 1996
Binding
Paperback
Pages
383
Dimensions
127 x 198 x 26mm

In 1986 Margaret Humphreys, a Nottingham social worker and mother of two, investigated the case of a woman who claimed that, at the age of four, she had been put on a boat to Australia by the British government.

At first incredulous, Humphreys soon discovered that this woman's story was just the tip of an enormous iceberg. As many as an estimated 150,000 children had in fact been deported from children's homes in Britain and shipped off to a 'new life' in distant parts of the Empire - the last as recently as 1967.

Many of the children were told that their parents were dead. Their parents, too, were often deceived. The reality was very different: for numerous children it was to be a life of horrendous physical and sexual abuse in institutions in Western Australia and elsewhere.

Humphreys reveals how she gradually unravelled this shocking secret; how she became drawn into the lives of some of these innocent and unwilling exiles, how it became her mission to reunite them with their families in Britain, and how her lonely crusade led to the founding of the Child Migrants Trust.

'Empth Cradles' is a strong indictment of government, as well as charitable and religious organisations. It is a sad, harrowing story that will move the reader to anger and tears. Yet it offers a message of hope to all the victims of a shameful scandal that has been ignored for too long.
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