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https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/it-a-punitive-fing-system-brooke-oliver-spent-a-majority-of-her-life-as-a-ward-of-the-state-now-she-helps-kids-coming-out-of-care/news-story/0bc27b5bce2973ef04756a1becfecacd
"Removed at birth from her mother, Brooke Oliver spent her entire childhood as
a ward of the state, which she describes as being “worse than prison” for kids
who end up in the same institutions.
From birth, she says the Department had already decided to make her a ward of
the state until adulthood.
“I was a heroin born independent baby so I was born at 22-weeks,” she told the
Advertiser, on Thursday.
“My mum and dad both went to jail straight after being born.”
Now, at 26, she does not hold back and says she is “an open book” about her
childhood, which was spent in foster care, kinship care and residential homes
until she was 18.
Ms Oliver, who now works for an organisation that helps transition kids from
out-of-home back into “normal society”, said there needs to be change."
Via
Guardian Australia.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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